Where does “-гӣ” come from?

-гӣ (Tajik) comes from Persian ـگی, from Old Anatolian Turkish ـکو, from Proto-Turkic *-gü — Derives nouns from verbs.

-гӣ (Tajik): used for words ending with the vowel а

Definitions

  1. used for words ending with the vowel а

Ancestry of “-гӣ”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Persianـگیform of the suffix for words that end in the short vowel ه}}}}
2Old Anatolian Turkishـکو—
3Proto-Turkic*-güDerives nouns from verbs

Words derived from “-гӣ”

Every word from Proto-Turkic *-gü →Every word from Old Anatolian Turkish ـکو →Every word from Persian ـگی →
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