ծնօղ
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Old Armenian
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]The original spelling is ծնաւղ (cnawł), from Proto-Indo-European *ǵenh₁-tl-eh₂-, from *ǵenh₁-. See ծին (cin) and -օղ (-ōł) for more.
Noun
[edit]ծնօղ • (cnōł)
- parent, father, mother
- ծնօղք մեր ― cnōłkʻ mer ― the authors of our being, our parents
- ըստ ծնօղին եւ ծնունդն ― əst cnōłin ew cnundn ― like produces like
- cause, source
- ծնօղ ծանունց չարեաց ― cnōł canuncʻ čʻareacʻ ― source of the greatest evils
Declension
[edit]i-a-type
Descendants
[edit]- Armenian: ծնող (cnoġ)
References
[edit]- Petrosean, Matatʻeay (1879) “ծնող”, in Nor Baṙagirkʻ Hay-Angliarēn [New Dictionary Armenian–English], Venice: S. Lazarus Armenian Academy
- Awetikʻean, G., Siwrmēlean, X., Awgerean, M. (1836–1837) “ծնօղ”, in Nor baṙgirkʻ haykazean lezui [New Dictionary of the Armenian Language] (in Old Armenian), Venice: S. Lazarus Armenian Academy
- J̌ahukyan, Geworg (1998) “-աւղ/-ող”, in Hin hayereni verǰacancʻneri cagumə [The Origin of Old Armenian Suffixes] (Hayocʻ lezvi hamematakan kʻerakanutʻyan harcʻer; 2) (in Armenian), Yerevan: Anania Širakacʻi, pages 5–48
- Martirosyan, Hrach (2010) Etymological Dictionary of the Armenian Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 8), Leiden and Boston: Brill, page 343