akku > aṡ > aśáni East in other Indo-European Languages (2)
In his A Comparative Dictionary of the Indo-Aryan Languages, Turner says Sanskrit word aśáni means “thunderbolt.” He also provides the cognates of aśáni in other East Indo-European languages and dialects:
Pali asanī-, asana-; Prakrit asaṇi-; Ashkun ašĩˊ; Waigali ašē˜ˊ; Prasun īšĩ; Bashgalī azhir; Dameli ašin; Pashai ášen; Shuṃashti äˊšin; Gawar-Bati išín; Bashkarīk ašun; Savi išin; Phalūṛa ā́un; Lahndā ahin; Awāṇkārī ε̄̂n; Panjābī āhiṇ, āhaṇ, aihaṇ; West Pahāṛī and Bhadrawāhī (dialect of West Pahāṛī) ā́ṇ; Bhalesī (dialect of West Pahāṛī) ḗhiṇi; Nepāli asino; Shina aĩyĕˊr; Sinhalese *ǟn, sena, heṇa.
All these cognates and the following word related to aśáni originate from Tamil akku.
vajrāśani, “Indra’s thunderbolt.”