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 ― cnōłkʿ mer ― the authors of our being, our parents

   ըստ ծնօղին եւ ծնունդն ― əst cnōłin ew cnundn ― like produces like

2. cause

   ծնօղ ծանունց չարեաց ― cnōł canuncʿ čʿareacʿ ― source of the greatest evils

• Armenian: ծնող (cnoł)

• Petrosean, H. Matatʿeay V. (1879), “ծնող”, in Nor Baṙagirkʿ Hay-Angliarēn [New Dictionary Armenian–English], Venice: S. Lazarus Armenian Academy
• Awetikʿean, G.; Siwrmēlean, X.; Awgerean, M. (1836–1837), “ծնօղ”, in Nor baṙgirkʿ haykazean lezui [New Dictionary of the Armenian Language] (in Old Armenian), Venice: S. Lazarus Armenian Academy
• J̌ahukyan, Geworg (1998), “-աւղ/-ող”, in Hin hayereni verǰacancʿneri cagumə [The Origin of Old Armenian Suffixes] (Hayocʿ lezvi hamematakan kʿerakanutʿyan harcʿer; 2) (in Armenian), Yerevan: Anania Širakacʿi, pages 5–48
• Martirosyan, Hrach (2010) Etymological Dictionary of the Armenian Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 8), Leiden, Boston: Brill, page 343