Where does “آینه‌جی” come from?

آینه‌جی (Ottoman Turkish) comes from Persian آینه, from Old Anatolian Turkish آیِینَه, from Classical Persian آیِینَه.

آینه‌جی (Ottoman Turkish): mirror-maker, a manufacturer, dealer, or seller of mirrors, looking-glasses, or the like

Definitions

  1. mirror-maker, a manufacturer, dealer, or seller of mirrors, looking-glasses, or the like

Ancestry of “آینه‌جی”, step by step

آینه‌جی traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Persian آینه

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Persianآینهmirror
2Old Anatolian Turkishآیِینَه—
3Classical Persianآیِینَه—

via Ottoman Turkish ـجی

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Ottoman Turkishـجیoccupational suffix
2Proto-Turkic-čiProfession suffix
Every word from Classical Persian آیِینَه →Every word from Old Anatolian Turkish آیِینَه →Every word from Persian آینه →