il (locative) > ántara in other Indo-European Languages (23)
Turner’s A Comparative Dictionary of the Indo-Aryan Languages says Sanskrit word ántara means “interior and near.” He also presents the cognates of ántara in other Indo-European languages and dialects:
Pali antara-, antarā, antarēna, antarē; Aśokan, Shāhbāzgaṛhī, Mānsehrā, and Girnār Rock Inscription of Aśoka aṁtara-; Kālsī, Dhauli, and Jaugaḍa Rock Inscription of Aśoka aṁtala; Middle Indo-Aryan forms occurring in Corpus Inscriptionum Indicarum aṁtara; Prakrit aṁtara-; Gypsy and European andre, dre, andral; Armenian (dialect of Gypsy) anra; Ḍumāki anā; Waigalī áttər, atḗr, atrḗ; Pashai andarū́; Tirāhī andarun; Persian andarūn; Khowār andren; Tōrwālī andarē; Shina, and Gilgitī (dialect of Shina) dar; Kohistānī (dialect of Shina) dura; Kashmiri andar, dar, ạndᵃra; Kashṭawāṛī (dialect of Kashmiri) andar; Ḍoḍī (a dialect of Kashmiri in Jammu) antar; Sindhī andaru; Lahndā andir; Awāṇkārī (dialect of Lahndā) andur; Panjābī andar; West Pahāṛī and Pāḍarī (sub-dialect of Bhadrawāhī dialect of West Pahāṛī) āndar; Cameāḷī (dialect of West Pahāṛī) andar; Bhadrawāhī (dialect of West Pahāṛī) and Paṅgwāḷī (dialect of Shina) antar; Bhalesī (dialect of West Pahāṛī) antar, antra, atru-maj̈; Assamese ā̃tar; Middle Bengali āntare; Bengali tare; Oṛiyā antare; Bihārī ā̃tar, ā̃trā, ā̃tar; Old Maithilī ā̃tara; Maithilī ā̃tar; Awadhī and Lakhīmpurī (dialect of Awadhī) ā̃tarā; Hindī ā̃tar; Gujarātī ā̃trɔ, ā̃tar-siyɔ; Marāṭhī ãtar, ãtrā; Sinhalese atura, aturu, turu, ätul,*antilla-; The following words for ‘entrail’: Ashkun atarē˜ˊ; Waigalī atrē˜ˊ; Kati atrwái; Prasun ətrḗ; Gawar-Bati atəraṅgīn.
All these cognates and the following words related to ántara originate from the Tamil root il (locative).
antár, “inside.” āntara, “being inside.” *āntraguṇa, “gut-string.” āntrika, “visceral.” *yakarāntra, “liver and guts.” *antaḥpathya, “in the road.” *antaḥsthāna, “interior organ.” *antarōdaka, “being in the water.” antarnagara, “palace of a king.” *antarvarṣa, “between rain.” antastya, “intestines.” *antaravīthi, “street between houses.” *antarāgaṅga, “between rivers.” *antarāśa, “choking.” abhyantara, “interior, inside.” prāntara, “long desolate road.” *bhiyantara, “inner.” *bhiyantaramāṁsa, “entrail.” *bhiyantarika, “belonging to the inside.” ēkāntara, “separated by one.” *kuḍyāntara, “divided by wall.” sīmāntara, “boundary of a village.”