īṉ > jan > jána in other Indo-European Languages (97)
According to Turner’s A Comparative Dictionary of the Indo-Aryan Languages, Sanskrit word jána means “race and person.” He also provides the cognates of jána in other Indo-European languages and dialects:
Pali jana-; Aśokan i.e., the language of the Inscriptions of Aśoka jana-; Middle Indo-Aryan forms occurring in Corpus Inscriptionum Indicarum jaṇa-; Language of ‘Kharoṣṭhī Inscriptions discovered by Sir Aurel Stein in Chinese Turkestan’ jana, jaṁna; Prakrit jaṇa-; Gypsy or Romani, European (Gypsy) ǰeno; Ashkun zen; Dameli žan; Pashai and Lauṛowānī (dialect of Pashai) ǰan (used as numerative); Kuṛaṅgali (dialect of Pashai) zan; Shuṃashti zən; Kalasha and Rumbūr (dialect of Kalasha) ǰun; Khowār žun; Phalūṛa žān; Kashmiri zan, zonᵘ; Sindhī j̄aṇo; Lahndā jaṇā; Multānī (dialect of Lahndā) jaṇ; Awāṇkārī (dialect of Lahndā) jaṇā; Panjābī jaṇā; Ludhiānī (dialect of Panjābī) jan, janā; West Pahāṛī and Bhadrawāhī (dialect of West Pahāṛī) zŏṇō; Kumaunī jaṇ; Nepāli janā (-ā from common use in plural as numerative); Assamese zan, zanā; Old Bengali jaṇa; Bengali jan, janā; Oṛiyā jaṇa, jaṇe; Bihārī jan; Maithilī jan, janā; Bhojpurī jan; Awadhī, Lakhīmpurī (dialect of Awadhī), and Hindī janā; Mārwāṛī jaṇo; Gujarātī jaṇ; Marāṭhī j̈aṇ; Koṅkaṇī jaṇa, zaṇ; Sinhalese danā; Old Sinhalese (10th century) dena < jánya-.
All these cognates and the following words related to jána originate from the Tamil root īṉ.
jan, “born.” ja, “born.” aparajá, “born later.” avaraja, see aparajá. tanūjá, “born of the body.” tanuja, see tanūjá. dvijá, “twice-born.” sadyōja, “freshly born.” sadyōjāta, “new-born calf.” sadyōjātā, “a woman who has recently given birth.” jánana, “birth.” jananī, “mother.” janapadá, “a people.” janáyati, “causes to be born.” jáni, “woman, wife.” janita, “born.” janítra, “origin, birthplace.” jánitrī, “mother.” jániman, “birth.” janús, “birth, race.” *janti, “birth.” jantú, “offspring, creature, man.” janmatāra, “the asterism under which one is born.” *janmadāna, “birth.” jánman, “birth, creature.” janmāntara, “former life.” *janmita, “born.” jánya, “belonging to a race.” janyatē, “is born.” janyayātrā, “bridal procession.” *janyavāsa, “lodging of bridegroom's party.” jā́, “offspring.” jātá, “born.” jātaka, “new-born son.” jāti, “birth.” *jātipattrikā, “horoscope.” jā́tya, “of the same family.” *jātiya or jātī́ya, “of the race of.” *jānayati, “begets, bears.” jāni, “wife.” jānya, “friend of bridegroom.” jā́yatē, “is born.” jāyā́, “wife.” jñātí, “kinsman.” *jñātighara, “kinsman's house.” jñātitva, “kinship.” *jñātra, “kinship, kinsman.” ā́jāyatē, “is born.” újjāyatē, “is begotten.” nijá, “constant or innate, of one’s own country, one’s own.” prajana, “begetting, bearing.” prájanayati, “causes to propagate.” prájāta, “born.” prajātā, “woman who has borne a child.” prájāyatē, “is born.” *vijanati, “gives birth.” *vijanā, “giving birth.” vijanman, “birth.” vijāta, “born.” *vijātra, “birth.” víjāyatē, “is born.” durjana, “villain.” nirjana, “unpeopled.” *duhitājana, “daughter’s people.” *duhitābhaginī, “daughter’s young female.” *dēśajana, “person of one’s country.” pr̥thagjana, “man of lower caste.” mahājana, “great multitude.” svajana, “kinsman.” *svajanaputra, “kinsman’s son.” svājanya, “relationship.” *caturthajanī, “bearing for the 4th time.” *dutīyajanī, “bearing a second time.” *navajanī, “having newly brought forth.” *navajanmita, “new-born.” navajā́, “new, young.” návajāta, “having new-born offspring.” *prathilajanī, “having borne once.” prathamajā́, “first born.” sahajā́, “born together.” sahajāta, “born together.” jātarasa, “having taste.” *jātavāla, “new-born baby’s hair.” sajātá, “kinsman.” *sajātiya, “kinsman.” *agratōjāta, “born earlier.” aṅgajāta, “produced from the body.” aṇḍaja, see *āṇḍajāta. *āṇḍajāta, “egg-born.” *urōjāta, “own son.” dēśajāta, “native.” *pitryajāta, “father's brother’s son.” *mātuḥṣvasr̥jāta, “mother’s sister’s son.” *sapatnījāta, “born of a co-wife.” samajātīya, “of the same kind.”