Where does “abartıcılık” come from?

abartıcılık (Turkish) comes from Turkish abartıcı, from Turkish -ici, from Ottoman Turkish ـیجی, from Proto-Turkic *-gučï — Forms professions from verbs.

abartıcılık (Turkish): The habit of exaggerating

Definitions

  1. The habit of exaggerating

Ancestry of “abartıcılık”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Turkishabartıcıexaggerator
2Turkish-iciSuffix creating adjectives and/or (sometimes occupational) nouns directly from transitive verbs: -ive, -ous, -er
3Ottoman Turkishـیجی—
4Proto-Turkic*-gučïForms professions from verbs
Every word from Proto-Turkic *-gučï →Every word from Turkish -ici →Every word from Ottoman Turkish ـیجی →