Where does “Çağatayca” come from?

Çağatayca (Turkish) comes from Ottoman Turkish چغتایجه, from Ottoman Turkish ـجه, from Proto-Turkic *-če — Suffix expressing the equative case.

Çağatayca (Turkish): Chaghatay language

Definitions

  1. Chaghatay language

Ancestry of “Çağatayca”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Ottoman TurkishچغتایجهChaghatay (language)
2Ottoman Turkishـجهlike, -like, -ly; -ish; as if, as though; in the way of
3Proto-Turkic*-čeSuffix expressing the equative case
Every word from Proto-Turkic *-če →Every word from Ottoman Turkish ـجه →Every word from Ottoman Turkish چغتایجه →
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