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Ottoman Turkish
Etymology
From یلكن (yelken, “sail”) + ـجی (-cı, -ci, occupational suffix).
Noun
یلكنجی • (yelkenci)
- sailmaker, a person whose occupation is to make or repair sails
Descendants
Further reading
- Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “yelkenci”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 5280
- Kélékian, Diran (1911) “یلكنجی”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, Constantinople: Mihran, page 1358
- Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Celeupes”, in Complementum thesauri linguarum orientalium, seu onomasticum latino-turcico-arabico-persicum, simul idem index verborum lexici turcico-arabico-persici, quod latinâ, germanicâ, aliarumque linguarum adjectâ nomenclatione nuper in lucem editum, Vienna, column 167
- Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “یلكنجی”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum, Vienna, column 5603
- Redhouse, James W. (1890) “یلكنجی”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 2209
- Rocchi, Luciano (2020) “Addenda from pre-Meninski transcription texts to Stanisław Stachowski’s "Historisches Wörterbuch der Bildungen auf -cı//-ıcı im Osmanisch-Türkischen" (Part 4)”, in Studia Linguistica Universitatis Iagellonicae Cracoviensis, volume 137, number 4, →DOI, page 318