aṅku > śŕ̥ṅga in other East Indo-European Languages (23)
Turner’s A Comparative Dictionary of the Indo-Aryan Languages says Sanskrit word śŕ̥ṅga refers to a “horn.” He also provides the cognates of śŕ̥ṅga in other East Indo-European languages and dialects:
Pali siṅga-; Prakrit siṁga-, saṁga-; Gypsy or Romani and European (Gypsy) šing; Palestinian dialect of the Asiatic Gypsy of the Nawar šíngi; Ashkun and Kati ṣĭ̄ṅ; Waigali ṣīṅ, ṣŕiṅ; Dameli ṣiṅ; Pashai and Lauṛowānī (dialect of Pashai) ṣāṅg; Kurukh (Dravidian) ṣīṅ; Darrai-i Nūr (dialect of Pashai) ṣīṅ; Nirlāmi (dialect of Pashai) ṣēṅ; Shuṃashti ṣīṅ; Woṭapūrī šiṅ; Gawar-Bati, Kalasha and Rumbūr (dialect of Kalasha) ṣiṅ; Bashkarīk (Dardic) ṣīṅ; Phalūṛa (Dardic) ṣiṅ, ṣíṅga (in plural); Shina and Gilgitī (dialect of Shina) ṣĭṅ; Jijelut (dialect of Shina) ṣiṅ; Palesī (dialect of Shina) c̣riṅga; Kashmiri hĕng; Sindhī siṅu; Lahndā siṅg; Awāṇkārī (dialect of Lahndā) sìṅg; Panjābī siṅg; West Pahāṛī, Bhadrawāhī, Bhalesī, and Khaśālī (dialects of West Pahāṛī) śiṅg, (Joshi) śī˜g; Kumaunī sīṅ; Nepāli siṅ; Assamese xiṅ; Bengali siṅ; Oṛiyā siṅga; Bhojpurī sī˜gⁱ; Awadhī and Lakhīmpurī (dialect of Awadhī) sī˜g; Hindī sī˜g; Gujarāti sĩg; Marāṭhī śī˜g; Koṅkaṇī śī˜ṅga; Sinhalese han̆ga, an̆ga.
All these cognates and the following words related to śŕ̥ṅga originate from the Tamil root aṅku.
*śr̥ṅgadrōṇa, horn-bow. *śr̥ṅgapaṭṭa, horn slab. *śr̥ṅgamāta, made of horns. *śr̥ṅgayukta, joined to the horns. śr̥ṅgavēra, dried or fresh ginger, [popular etymology from horn-like shape of the root, for (Pali) siṅgi-vēra- (← Dravidian Tamil iñci ‘ginger’, DED 363, and Tamil vēr ‘root’, DED 4554]. śr̥ṅgavērapura, name of a town on the Ganges. śr̥ṅgāṭa, the water-chetstnut Trapa bispinosa. *śr̥ṅgāsana, seat of horns. śŕ̥ṅgāra, sexual desire, amorous pursuits, finery. śr̥ṅgika, a particular vegetable poison. śr̥ṅgikā-, aconite. śr̥ṅgín, horned. śr̥ṅgī, a particular kind of fish. śārṅga, made of horn; bow. *śārṅgala, horned. *śr̥ṅgārayati, adorns. śr̥ṅgārita-, adorned. *ut-śr̥ṅga, having upright horns. karkaṭaśr̥ṅgī and karkaṭaśr̥ṅgikā-, gallnut (formed by an excrescence on Rhus succedanea). cátuḥśr̥ṅga, four-horned. mēḍhraśr̥ṅgī, the plant Odina pinnata.