աղունք

Ačaṙyan reconstructs the singular as *աղն (*ałn) and leaves the origin open. Ałayan derives *աղն (*ałn) from the Proto-Indo-European root *h₃elh₁- (“to destroy”). This is accepted by J̌ahukyan, who reconstructs a proto-form *l̥-no- (1987) or *olen- (2010) for Armenian, with a question mark.

աղունք • (ałunkʻ) pl

1. bitterness, grief, trouble; crime
   • second half of 5th century or 6th century, Girkʿ Pitoyicʿ [Book of Chries]
   • 6th century, Philo of Alexandria

• Petrosean, Matatʻeay (1879) “աղունք”, in Nor Baṙagirkʻ Hay-Angliarēn [New Dictionary Armenian–English], Venice: S. Lazarus Armenian Academy
• Awetikʻean, G., Siwrmēlean, X., Awgerean, M. (1836–1837) “աղունք”, in Nor baṙgirkʻ haykazean lezui [New Dictionary of the Armenian Language] (in Old Armenian), Venice: S. Lazarus Armenian Academy
• Ačaṙean, Hračʻeay (1971) “աղունք”, in Hayerēn armatakan baṙaran [Armenian Etymological Dictionary] (in Armenian), 2nd edition, a reprint of the original 1926–1935 seven-volume edition, volume I, Yerevan: University Press, page 135b
• Pokorny, Julius (1959) “⁵el-, ol-”, in Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch [Indo-European Etymological Dictionary] (in German), volume 1, Bern, München: Francke Verlag, page 306
• Aġayan, Ēduard (1974) Baṙakʻnnakan ew stugabanakan hetazotutʻyunner [Lexicological and Etymological Studies]‎ (in Armenian), Yerevan: Academy Press, pages 17–18
• J̌ahukyan, Geworg (1987) Hayocʻ lezvi patmutʻyun; naxagrayin žamanakašrǰan [History of the Armenian language: The Pre-Literary Period]‎ (in Armenian), Yerevan: Academy Press, page 121
• J̌ahukyan, Geworg (2010) “աղն”, in Vahan Sargsyan, editor, Hayeren stugabanakan baṙaran [Armenian Etymological Dictionary] (in Armenian), Yerevan: Asoghik, page 39a