Where does “یالدزجی” come from?

یالدزجی (Ottoman Turkish) comes from Ottoman Turkish ـجی, from Proto-Turkic -či — Profession suffix.

یالدزجی (Ottoman Turkish): gilder, a person whose occupation is to overlay things with gold

Definitions

  1. gilder, a person whose occupation is to overlay things with gold

Ancestry of “یالدزجی”, step by step

یالدزجی traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Ottoman Turkish ـجی

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Ottoman Turkishـجیoccupational suffix
2Proto-Turkic-čiProfession suffix

via Ottoman Turkish یالدز

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Ottoman Turkishیالدزgilding, the art or process of applying gold leaf to a surface
2Proto-Turkicyāl-—
Every word from Proto-Turkic -či →