el > lōká in other Indo-European Languages (10)
Turner’s A Comparative Dictionary of the Indo-Aryan Languages says Sanskrit word lōká means “free space, world, and territory.” He also provides the cognates of lōká in other Indo-European languages and dialect:
Pali lōka-; Aśokan i.e. the language of the Inscriptions of Aśoka and Delhi-Tōprā Pillar Edict of Aśoka loke; Shāhbāzgaṛhī Rock Inscription of Aśoka ia-lokaṁ; Jaugaḍa Rock Inscription of Aśoka hida-logaṁ; Middle Indo-Aryan forms occurring in Corpus Inscriptionum Indicarum loo; Prakrit lōga-, lōa-; Waigalī lō; Sindhī lou, loi; Lahndā and Khetrānī (dialect of Lahndā) lō; Old Bengali loa; Old Awadhī loi; Hindī loe, loī; Old Gujarātī loi; Sinhalese lov, lev.
The above cognates and the following words related to lōká originate from the Tamil root el.
lōkanātha, “a name of Viṣṇu.” *lokāgra “chief of the world.” *lōkiya-, “pertaining to this or the next world.” lōkōttara, “extraordinary.” trilōka, “the three worlds.” dēvalōká, “world of the gods.” *dēvalōkya, “belonging to heaven.” paralōka, “the next world.” manuṣyalōká, “the world of men.”