ar > ru > rudh/ruh > rṓhita¹ in other East Indo-European Languages (13)
According to Turner’s A Comparative Dictionary of the Indo-Aryan Languages, the Sanskrit word rṓhita1 means “red and reddish.” He also provides its cognates in other East Indo-European languages:
Prakrit rōhia-; Panjābī rohu, rehū; Nepāli rewā; Assamese rau; Bengali rui; Oṛiyā rohi, roi, rui; Maithilī rohu; Bhojpurī rōhū; Hindī rohu, rehū; Marāṭhī rohī.
All these cognates and the following words related to rṓhita1 originate from Tamil ar.
rōhi-, a kind of deer. *rōhiṇa, red. rṓhiṇī, red cow, cow, the 9th constellation. rōhít, red. rōhita-², a kind of deer. rōhitamatsya, the fish Cyprinus rohitaka. *rōhitya, a kind of deer. *rōhiya-, a kind of deer. rōhiṣa, a kind of fish. *rōhya, *rōhiya-, a kind of deer.