al > na in other East Indo-European Languages (13)

      In Turner’s A Comparative Dictionary of the Indo-Aryan Languages, the prefix means “not.” It has cognates in other East Indo-European languages and dialects:

Pali na; Aśokan i.e. the Language of the Inscriptions of Aśoka na; Kālsī Rock Inscription of Aśoka ; Gāndhārī or Northwest Prakrit na; Prakrit ṇa, ṇā; Gypsy or Romani, European (Gypsy), and Armenian (dialect of Gypsy) na; Palestinian (dialect of Asiatic Gypsy of the Nawar) na, nu; Ashkun, ; Waigalī na; Prasun ; Tirāhī (Dardic) ; Pashai, Woṭapūrī (language of Woṭapūr and Kaṭārqalā-Dardic), and Gawar-Bati (Dardic) na; Khowār (Dardic) na, no (or < nṓ); Bashkarīk (Dardic), Tōrwālī (Dardic), Maiyã (Dardic), Phalūṛa (Dardic), Shina, Kashmiri, Sindhī, Lahndā, Panjābī, West Pahāṛī, Bhadrawāhī (dialect of West Pahāṛī), Bhalesī (dialect of West Pahāṛī), Khaśālī (dialect of West Pahāṛī), Kumaunī, Nepāli, and Assamese na; Bengali ; Oṛiyā ; Maithilī na; Hindī ; Mārwāṛī and Gujarātī na; Marāṭhī and Sinhalese nā̆.

All these cognates and the following compound words with the prefix originate from the Tamil root al.

 

English words derived from Tamil al connoting 'negation'