-джия

Etymology
Grammaticalization of the Turkish marker / (when appended to stems with front root vowel), / (when appended to stems with back root vowel). Mainly encountered with Ottoman Turkish loanwords; however, derivatives from native words are also attested.

Morphologically, the suffix is declined as feminine; however, semantically, the derived terms are interpreted as masculine.

Suffix

 * 1) * →  (lit. soup cook)
 * 1) * →  (lit. soup cook)
 * 1) * →  (lit. soup cook)
 * 1) * →  (lit. soup cook)
 * 1) * →  (lit. soup cook)
 * 1) * →  (lit. soup cook)
 * 1) * →  (lit. soup cook)
 * 1) * →  (lit. soup cook)
 * 1) * →  (lit. soup cook)
 * 1) * →  (lit. soup cook)

Usage notes
Applied to stems ending in a vowel or a voiced consonant. When appended to abbreviations, which obey the phonotactic rules of Bulgarain (i.e. resemble an actual word), -а- is inserted between the stem and the suffix.

Related terms

 * (from 🇨🇬)
 * (from 🇨🇬, )