Where does “çevrecilik” come from?
çevrecilik (Turkish) comes from Turkish çevreci, from Turkish -cı, from Ottoman Turkish ـچی, from Proto-Turkic -či.
çevrecilik (Turkish): environmentalism
Ancestry of “çevrecilik”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|
| 1 | Turkish | çevreci | environmentalist |
| 2 | Turkish | -cı | Suffix appended to words to create a noun... |
| 3 | Ottoman Turkish | ـچی | — |
| 4 | Proto-Turkic | -či | — |