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Albanian
Etymology
Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish یولجی (yolcu).
Noun
jollxhi m (plural jollxhinj) (archaic)
- boatswain
- Synonyms: bocman, nostrom
Adjective
jollxhi (feminine jollxhie) (archaic)
- travelling, itinerant
- Synonym: shëtitës
References
- Jungg, G. (1895) “joλgii”, in Fialuur i voghel sccȣp e ltinisct [Small Albanian–Italian dictionary], page 50b
- Giochálas, Títos (1980) Τὸ Ἑλληνο–Ἀλβανικὸν Λεξικὸν τοῦ Μάρκου Μπότσαρη [Tò Hellēno–Albanikòn Lexikòn toû Márkou Mpótsarē] (in Greek), Athens, 112:1530, page 193: “ναφκληρος [ναύκληρος] — γιολτζὴ [jollxhí] ― naphklēros [naúklēros] — gioltzḕ [jollxhí]”
- Bufli, G., Rocchi, L. (2021) “*jollxhi”, in A historical-etymological dictionary of Turkisms in Albanian (1555–1954), Trieste: Edizioni Università di Trieste, page 231