Where does “یلكنجی” come from?

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

یلكنجی (Ottoman Turkish): sailmaker, a person whose occupation is to make or repair sails

Definitions

  1. sailmaker, a person whose occupation is to make or repair sails

Ancestry of “یلكنجی”, step by step

یلكنجی traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Ottoman Turkish ـجی

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

via Ottoman Turkish یلكن

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Ottoman Turkishیلكنsail
2Old Anatolian Turkishیلكنsail

Words derived from “یلكنجی”

Every word from Proto-Turkic -či →