اینكجی

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

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

Noun

اینكجی • (inekçi)

1. tender or keeper of cows

Descendants

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

Further reading

• 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