aintu > pañca in other Indo-European Languages (28)
Turner’s A Comparative Dictionary of the Indo-Aryan Languages says Sanskrit word pañca means “five.” He also puts forward cognates of pañca in other Indo-European languages and dialects:
Pali pañca; Gāndhārī or Northwest Prakrit paja; Language of ‘Kharoṣṭhī Inscriptions discovered by Sir Aurel Stein in Chinese Turkestan’ and Prakrit paṁca; Gypsy or Romani and European panǰ, panč; Welsh (dialect of European Gypsy) pans; Palestinian (dialect of Asiatic Gypsy of the Nawar) pŭnǰ, pŭnǰi; Asiatic dialects of Gypsy penč; Ashkun ponċ, punċ; Waigalī pū̃č; Kati or Katei puč; Prasun wuču; Dameli pã̂č; Tirāhī panz; Pashai and Lauṛowānī (dialect of Pashai) pā́nǰa; Uzbini (dialect of pashai) pōnǰ; Darrai-i Nūr (dialect of Pashai) painǰ; Kuṛaṅgali (dialect of Pashai) pain; Chilasi (dialect of Shina or of Pashai) paẽ; Niṅgalāmī paṇ; Shuṃashti pōn; Woṭapūrī panj̈; Gawar-Bati pōnċ; Kalasha and Urtsun (dialect of Kalasha) pañš; Rumbūr (dialect of Kalasha) poñ; Khowār ponǰ; Bashkarīk panž; Tōrwālī paⁱnǰ; Kandia pā̃s; Maiyã panz; Savi pānǰ; Phalūṛa pānž; Shina and Gilgitī (dialect of Shina) poĩ (a loanword into Ḍumāki poi); Gurēsī (dialect of Shina) pō̃š; Palesī (dialect of Shina) poš; Kashmiri pānċ; Rāmbanī (dialect of Kashmiri in Jammu) and Kashṭawāṛī (dialect of Kashmiri) panċ, Pŏgulī (dialect of Kashmiri) pā̃ċ, Ḍoḍī (Sirājī of Ḍoḍā; a dialect of Kashmiri in Jammu) pānċ; Sindhī pañja; Lahndā pañj; Khetrānī (dialect of Lahndā) pāñj; Panjābī pañj; West Pahāṛī, Bhadrawāhī (dialect of West Pahāṛī), and Bhalesī (dialect of West Pahāṛī) panċ; Paṅgwāḷī (dialect of Shina) and Curāhī (dialect of West Pahāṛī) pañj; Khaśālī (dialect of West Pahāṛī) pãs; Kumaunī and Nepāli pā̃c; Assamese pā̃s; Bengali pā̃c; Oṛiyā pāñca; Maithilī, Awadhī, Lakhīmpurī (dialect of Awadhī), Hindī, Mārwāṛī, and Gujarātī pā̃c; Marāṭhī pā̃ċ; Koṅkaṇī pā̃ñca; Old Sinhalese paca; Sinhalese pasa, paha; Maldivian (dialect of Sinhalese) fas.
All these cognates and the following words related to pañca originate from the Tamil root aintu.
paṅktí, “group of five.” páñcaka, “consisting of five.” pañcakula, “consisting of five families.” pañcaguṇa, “fivefold.” páñcacatvāriṁśat, “forty-five.” páñcatriṁśat, “thirty-five.” páñcadaśa, “fifteen.” pañcadaśá, “fifteenth.” pañcadaśama, “fifteenth.” pañcanavati, “ninety-five.” páñcapañcāśat, “fifty-five.” pañcapattra, “having five feathers.” pañcapuṭaka, “fivefold.” pañcamá, “fifth.” pañcamahala, “fifth ploughing.” pañcamāsya, “happening every five months.” páñcaviṁśati, “twenty-five.” pañcaśata, “amounting to 500.” pañcaṣaṣṭi, “sixty-five.” pañcasaptati, “seventy-five.” pañcāṅka, “the figure 5.” pañcāṅga, “five-limbed.” pañcāṅgula, “measuring five fingerbreadths.” pañcāṅguli, “five-fingered.” pañcāśát, “fifty.” pañcāśīti, “eighty-five.” pañcōttara, “more by five.”