Where does “yabancı” come from?
yabancı (Turkish) comes from Ottoman Turkish یابانجی, from Ottoman Turkish ـجی, from Proto-Turkic -či.
yabancı (Turkish): stranger; foreigner
Ancestry of “yabancı”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|
| 1 | Ottoman Turkish | یابانجی | — |
| 2 | Ottoman Turkish | ـجی | occupational suffix |
| 3 | Proto-Turkic | -či | — |