Where does “ծաղ-” come from?

ծաղ- (Old Armenian) comes from Proto-Indo-European ǵl̥h₂-.

Ancestry of “ծաղ-”, step by step

ծաղ- traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Proto-Indo-European ǵl̥h₂-

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Proto-Indo-Europeanǵl̥h₂-

via Proto-Indo-European ǵélh₂-

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Proto-Indo-Europeanǵélh₂-
Every word from Proto-Indo-European ǵl̥h₂-