اینكجی

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

From اینك (inek, “cow”) +‎ ـجی (-cı, -ci, -çi, occupational suffix).

Noun

اینكجی • (inekci)

1. cowherd, cowherder, a tender or keeper of cattle, especially cows

Descendants

• Turkish: inekçi
• →⇒ Armenian: Ինեքճյան (Inekʻčyan), Ինեկչյան (Inekčʻyan), Ինէքճեան (Inēkʻčean) — traditional orthography

Further reading

• Barbier de Meynard, Charles (1881) “اینك”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, volume I, Paris: E. Leroux, page 245
• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “inekçi”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 2177
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “اینكجی”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[1], Constantinople: Mihran, page 228
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “اینكجی”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[2], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 310