ـجی

Inherited from Proto-Turkic *-či.

• IPA^(key): /d͡ʒi/, /d͡ʒɯ/, /d͡ʒy/, /d͡ʒu/

ـجی • (-ci or -cı or -cü or -cu)

1. Suffix creating nouns describing an occupation

   ‎قاشق (kaşık, “spoon”) + ‎ـجی → ‎قاشقجی (kaşıkcı, “spoon maker”)

• Turkish: -ci
• → Albanian: -xhi
• → Arabic:

  Egyptian Arabic: ـجي (-gi)

• → Armenian: -չի (-čʻi)
• →⇒ Bulgarian: -джия (-džija)
• → Greek: -τζής (-tzís), -τζού (-tzoú)
• → Ladino: -dji
• → Romanian: -giu
• →⇒ Serbo-Croatian: -džija / -џија, -ja / -ја

• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “ـجی”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[1], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 695