كستانه‌جی

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

From كستانه (kestane, “chestnut”) +‎ ـجی (-cı, -ci, occupational suffix). First attested in 1533 as chiesteneggí (kesteneci).

Noun

كستانه‌جی • (kestaneci)

  1. grower or seller of chestnuts

Descendants
  • Turkish: kestaneci

Further reading
  • Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “kestaneci”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 2575
  • Kélékian, Diran (1911) “كستانه‌جی”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎, Constantinople: Mihran, page 1025
  • Rocchi, Luciano (2020) “Addenda from pre-Meninski transcription texts to Stanisław Stachowski’s "Historisches Wörterbuch der Bildungen auf -cı//-ıcı im Osmanisch-Türkischen" (Part 3)”, in Studia Linguistica Universitatis Iagellonicae Cracoviensis‎, volume 137, number 3, →DOI, page 167
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