كتانجی

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Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

From كتان (kettan, flax, linen) +‎ ـجی (-cı, -ci, occupational suffix).

Noun

كتانجی (ketenci)

  1. linen-weaver or seller of linen cloth

Descendants

  • Armenian: Քեթենջյան (Kʻetʻenǰyan)

Further reading

  • Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “كتانجی”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum, Vienna, columns 3869–3870
  • Rocchi, Luciano (2020) “Addenda from pre-Meninski transcription texts to Stanisław Stachowski’s "Historisches Wörterbuch der Bildungen auf -//-ıcı im Osmanisch-Türkischen" (Part 3)”, in Studia Linguistica Universitatis Iagellonicae Cracoviensis, volume 137, number 3, →DOI, page 167