Where does “-gı” come from?

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

Ancestry of “-gı”, 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 “-gı”

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