صوجی

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

From صو (su, “water”) +‎ ـجی (-cu, “maker or seller”).

Noun

صوجی • (sucu)

waterman, water carrier, someone who distributes or supplies water for a living
Synonym: سقا (saka)

Descendants

Turkish: sucu
→ Armenian: սուճի (suči), սուչի (sučʻi), սուջի (suǰi), ⇒ Սուջյան (Suǰyan), Սուճյան (Sučyan)
- → English: Sujyan, Sudjian, Sujian, Suddjian, Sudjyan
- → French: Soudjian
- → Russian: Суджя́н (Sudžján)
- → Turkish: Suciyan, Sucuyan

Further reading

Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “sucu1”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 4343
Redhouse, James W. (1890) “صوجی”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1190

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