Where does “-cıl” come from?

-cıl (Turkish) comes from Ottoman Turkish ـجیل, from Proto-Turkic -či — Profession suffix.

-cıl (Turkish): Derives names of animals, mainly but not exclusively birds, which denote their diet or their tendency to prey on a certain type of animal

Definitions

  1. Derives names of animals, mainly but not exclusively birds, which denote their diet or their tendency to prey on a certain type of animal

Ancestry of “-cıl”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Ottoman TurkishـجیلForms names of predators from names of prey
2Proto-Turkic-čiProfession suffix

Words derived from “-cıl”

Every word from Proto-Turkic -či →Every word from Ottoman Turkish ـجیل →