ծնօղ

• ծնող (cnoł)
• ծնաւղ (cnawł)

The original spelling is ծնաւղ (cnawł), from Proto-Indo-European *ǵenh₁-tl-eh₂-, from *ǵenh₁-. See ծին (cin) and -օղ (-ōł) for more.

ծնօղ • (cnōł)

1. 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

2. cause, source

   ծնօղ ծանունց չարեաց ― cnōł canuncʻ čʻareacʻ ― source of the greatest evils

• Armenian: ծնող (cnoġ)

• 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