aṟuttal > lavaṇá in other East Indo-European Languages (40)
Turner’s A Comparative Dictionary of the Indo-Aryan Languages says Sanskrit word lavaṇá means “salt.” He also lists cognates of lavaṇá in other East Indo-European languages and dialects:
Pali and Prakrit lavaṇa-, lōṇa-; Prakrit lūṇa-; Gypsy and European lon; Armenian (dialect of Gypsy) nol; Palestinian (dialect of Asiatic Gypsy of the Nawar) lōn; Karači (dialect of Asiatic Gypsy) nul; Dameli lōn; Tirāhī lọ̈̄oṇ; Pashai and Lauṛowānī (dialect of Pashai) lūn; Areti (dialect of Pashai) lεn; Darrai-i Nūr (dialect of Pashai) lōṇ; Gulbāhrī (dialect of Pashai) and Nirlāmī (dialect of Pashai) lūṇ; Niṅgalāmī lō̃; Shuṃashti lōn; Woṭapūrī lōṇ; Gawar-Bati lọ̈̄°ṇ; Kalasha and Rumbūr (dialect of Kalasha) lṽŕ; Khowār lon; Bashkarīk luṇ; Tōrwālī lṓəṇ; Phalūṛa lo(h)ṓṇ; Shina and Kohistānī (dialect of Shina) luṇi; Gurēsī (dialect of Shina) lūṇi̯; lū́ṇi; Palesī (dialect of Shina) lṓəṇ, lūəṇī; Kashmiri nū̆n, lun, nunᵘ; Sindhī lūṇu; Lahndā lūṇ, loṇ; Awāṇkārī (dialect of Lahndā) lū̆ṇ; Multānī (dialect of Lahndā) lūṇī; Panjābī lūṇ, nūṇ; Ludhiānī (dialect of Panjābī) nūn; West Pahāṛī and Bhadrawāhī (dialect of West Pahāṛī) luṇ; Bhalesī (dialect of West Pahāṛī) and Khaśālī (dialect of West Pahāṛī) lūṇ; Kumaunī lūṇ, nūṇ; Nepāli nun; Assamese lon; Bengali lon, lun, nūn; Oṛiyā luṇa, nuṇa; Maithilī non; Bhojpurī nūn; Old Awadhī lonā; Lakhīmpurī (dialect of Awadhī) lōn; Hindī lon, lūn; Mārwāṛī lūṇ; Gujarātī luṇ; Marāṭhī loṇ, loṇā; Old Sinhalese loṇa; Sinhalese luṇu; Maldivian (dialect of Sinhalese) lonu.
All these cognates and the following words related to lavaṇá originate from the Tamil root aṟuttal.
láva¹, that which is cut off, fleece, reaping, fragment, particle. *lava², sickle, reaper. *lavakāṣṭha, wood for sickle. *lavaṇakara, salt-maker. *lavaṇatara, saltish. lavaṇayati, salts. lavaṇākara, salt-mine. lavaṇita, salted. *lavaṇya, salty, charming. *lavati, reaps. lávana, reaping. *lavāgrya-, first fruits of harvest. lavítra, sickle. lavya, to be cut off. *pattralava, cutting leaves. lāva, reaping, cutting. lāvaka, reaper. lā́vaṇika, dealing in salt. lā́vaṇya, saltness, loveliness. *lāvana, reaping. lāvya, to be reaped. *lāvyakāra, reaping. *lāvyatē, causes to be reaped. *nirlāvaṇya, free from saltness. alavaṇa, not salty. *vilavaṇa, not salted. salavaṇa, having salt. kālalavaṇa, a kind of black and factitious salt used medicinally. lunā́ti, cuts, reaps. lū́ta, cut off. lūna, cut, reaped. lūni, act of reaping. alūna, uncut. *avalavati, cuts off. ālava, stubble. *ālavana, reaping. *ālūta, cut off. *ullāva, a piece cut off. pralūna, cut off.