appā > pitŕ̥ in East other Indo-European Languages (20)
Turner’s A Comparative Dictionary of the Indo-Aryan Languages says Sanskrit word pitŕ̥ refers to a “father.” He also provides the cognate forms of Sanskrit pitŕ̥ in other East Indo-European languages and dialects:
Pali pitā, pitaraṁ, and pituṁ; Aśokan (i.e., the language of the Inscriptions of Aśoka) pitā; Mānsehrā and Shāhbāzgaṛhī Rock Inscription of Aśoka pituna; Gāndhārī or Northwest Prakrit pidara; Middle Indo-Aryan forms occurring in Corpus Inscriptionum Indicarum pitaraṁ, pidara, and pidu; Language of ‘Kharoṣṭhī Inscriptions discovered by Sir Aurel Stein in Chinese Turkestan’ pita; Prakrit piu-, piua-, piarā; Gypsy or Romani and Asiatic dialects of Gypsy piu; Ḍumāki piāra; Prasun (Kafiri) yā, yǟ; Sindhī piu; Lahndā peo; Khetrānī (dialect of Lahndā) piū́; Awāṇkārī (dialect of Lahndā) pio, mā-pe; Panjābī piu, peo, mā-pe; Oṛiyā piara; Hindī piu; Old Gujarāti pīya; Old Sinhalese pita; Sinhalese piyā.
All these cognates and the following words related to pitŕ̥ originate from Tamil appā.
*pituḥkula, father’s family. *pituḥśālā, father’s house. pituḥṣvasr̥, father’s sister. *pituḥṣvasr̥putra, father’s sister’s son. *pitr̥ghara, father’s house. *pitrantara, another father. pítriya, paternal, eldest brother who takes place of father. *pitriyajāni, wife of one of father’s family. *pitriyaputra, father’s brother’s son. *pitriyaśvaśura, spouse’s father’s younger brother. *pitriyaśvaśrū, spouse’s father’s younger sister. *pitryajāta, father’s brother’s son. *nānnīpitākula, mother’s father’s house. *mahāpitr̥, grandfather. *bā, father. *bāppa, father. *bābba-, father. *bābbajāni, father’s wife. *buba, father. *appa-, father.