ava > apa in other East Indo-European Languages (27)
In Turner’s A Comparative Dictionary of the Indo-Aryan Languages, the prefix apa is primarily employed in compound forms. Sanskrit word apagata, meaning “gone away and disappeared,” is one of the compound words of apa. It has cognates in other East Indo-European languages:
Pali apagata-; Prakrit avagaya-; Sinhalese ava-.
In addition to apagata, he also gives more compound words with the prefix apa. Some of them are given below for reference. All these cognates and compound words related to apa originate from Tamil ava.
apakarṣati, draws away. apagama, departure, death. apacchāyā, unlucky shadow. ápadravati, runs away. apadhārayati, *holds away. apanaya, taking away. apamāna, disrespect, disgrace. apavarta, *turning away. ápavartatē, turns back. ápavartayati, turns away from. apavr̥tta-, reversed. apavahati, leads away, drives away, relinquishes. apavāda, speaking evil of. ápavyayati or ávavyayati, takes off (clothes). ápasarati, slips off from, goes away. apasāra, way out, escape. *apahaṭṭ, move away. apahara, carrying off. ápaharati, snatches away. ápahr̥ta, carried away. apahēlā, disrespect. ápāgāt, he went away. ápājati, drives away. apāya, departure, death, misfortune. *apārdha, less than half.