# տող
## Armenian
### Etymology

Inherited from Old Armenian տող (toł). Doublet of տոլ (tol).

### Pronunciation

* (Eastern Armenian) IPA: /toʁ/, [toʁ]
* (Western Armenian) IPA: /doʁ/, [doʁ]

### Noun

տող • (toġ)
* (grammar) line (in a text)
    սկսել նոր տողից ― sksel nor toġicʻ ― start a new line

#### Descendants

* → Georgian: ტოღვი̆ (ṭoɣvĭ, “equal, peer”) — Tusheti
** → Bats: ტოღ (ṭoɣ)
* → Udi: тӏогъ (ṭoɣ)

## Old Armenian
### Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Indo-European *dolH-o-, from the root *delH-; cognate with Proto-Germanic *talą (“speech; number”), *taljaną (“to enumerate, count; to account, recount, tell; originally to align”), *talō (“speech, recount”), Hittite [script needed] (tal-li-i̯a-zi /⁠talliyazi⁠/, “to pray to, to evoke (a deity)”), Ancient Greek δόλος (dólos, “bait, trick”). See also Old Armenian տաղ (tał).

### Noun

տող • (toł)
* line; row, file, rank; series
* (grammar) line in a text

#### Declension

post-classical

#### Derived terms

* մարգարտատող (margartatoł)
* շղթայատող (šłtʻayatoł)
* տարատողումն (taratołumn)
* տողաբան (tołaban)
* տողաբար (tołabar)
* տողադիր (toładir)
* տողադրեմ (toładrem)
* տողական (tołakan)
* տողան (tołan)
* տողանի (tołani)
* տողանիմ (tołanim)
* տողեալ (tołeal)
* տողեմ (tołem, “to line up, align, organize in rows, plait together”)
* քարատող (kʻaratoł)

#### Descendants

* Armenian: տող (toġ)
** → Georgian: ტოღვი̆ (ṭoɣvĭ, “equal, peer”) — Tusheti
*** → Bats: ტოღ (ṭoɣ)
** → Udi: тӏогъ (ṭoɣ)
* → Middle Georgian: ტოლი (ṭoli)
** → Armenian: տոլ (tol, “equal in age”) — Ararat, Tbilisi

### References

* ↑ Scheftelowitz, J. (1905) “Zur altarmenischen lautgeschichte”, in Beiträge zur kunde der indogermanischen Sprachen (in German), volume 29, page 28
* ↑ Pedersen, Holger (1906) “Armenisch und die Nachbarsprachen”, in Zeitschrift für vergleichende Sprachforschung auf dem Gebiete der Indogermanischen Sprachen (in German), volume 39, number 3, page 372
* ↑ Pokorny, Julius (1959) Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch [Indo-European Etymological Dictionary] (in German), volume 1, Bern, München: Francke Verlag, page 193
* ↑ Aġayan, Ēduard (1974) Baṙakʻnnakan ew stugabanakan hetazotutʻyunner [Lexicological and Etymological Studies]‎ (in Armenian), Yerevan: Academy Press, pages 138–140
* ↑ Kloekhorst, Alwin (2008) Etymological Dictionary of the Hittite Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 5), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 819, without the Armenian
* ↑ Guus Kroonen (2013) “*tala-”, in Alexander Lubotsky, editor, Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 11)‎, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 508

### Further reading

* Ačaṙean, Hračʻeay (1979) “տող”, in Hayerēn armatakan baṙaran [Armenian Etymological Dictionary] (in Armenian), 2nd edition, a reprint of the original 1926–1935 seven-volume edition, volume IV, Yerevan: University Press, page 418ab, connects with Georgian ტოლი (ṭoli) and considers both to be borrowed from an unidentified third source
* Awetikʻean, G., Siwrmēlean, X., Awgerean, M. (1836–1837) “տող”, in Nor baṙgirkʻ haykazean lezui [New Dictionary of the Armenian Language] (in Old Armenian), Venice: S. Lazarus Armenian Academy
* Martirosyan, Hrach (2010) “toɫ”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Armenian Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 8), Leiden and Boston: Brill, page 616
* Petrosean, Matatʻeay (1879) “տող”, in Nor Baṙagirkʻ Hay-Angliarēn [New Dictionary Armenian–English], Venice: S. Lazarus Armenian Academy