al (negative) > anyá in other East Indo-European Languages (23)
Turner’s A Comparative Dictionary of the Indo-Aryan Languages says Sanskrit word anyá means “other.” He also provides the cognates of anyá in other East Indo-European languages and dialects:
Pali añña-; Aśokan i.e. the language of the Inscriptions of Aśoka and Shāhbāzgaṛhī Rock Inscription of Aśoka aña-; Mānsehrā Rock Inscription of Aśoka aṇa-; Girnār Rock Inscription of Aśoka aṁña-; Kālsī, Jaugaḍa, and Dhauli Rock Inscriptions of Aśoka aṁna; Language of ‘Kharoṣṭhī Inscriptions discovered by Sir Aurel Stein in Chinese Turkestan’ aṁña, aña; Prakrit aṇṇa-, aṇa-; Lahndā añj, ā̃j, ãj; Kumaunī and Gaṅgoī (dialect of Kumaunī) ān-kar; Assamese and Bengali ān; Oṛiyā āna; Bihārī, Maithilī, Bhojpurī, Awadhī, Lakhīmpurī (dialect of Awadhī), Hindī, Gujarātī, and Marāṭhī ān; Sinhalese an, anik.
All these cognates and the following words related to anyá originate from Tamil al.
ana, this. ántara, different, other. anantará, having no interval. avasthāntaram, changed state. *avasthānāntara-, see avasthāntara-. nirantara, without interval, perpetual. janmāntaram, former life. *triyantara, having three others. dēśāntarin, living in a foreign country. pādāntaram, interval of one step. padāntara-, see pādāntara-. *pitrantara, another father. *vartāntara, change of livelihood. vyantaram, interval. sthānāntaram, another place. anyatará, either of two. anyátra, elsewhere. anyadā, once, one day. *anyaparaśvas, fourth day hence. *anyākāra, of different form. anyādŕ̥ś, like another. anyṓnya, mutual.