iṟai > ciṟai > sar > sárva in other Indo-European Languages (5)

     According to Turner’s A Comparative Dictionary of the Indo-Aryan Languages, Sanskrit word sárva means “all and whole.” He also lists cognates of sárva in other Indo-European languages and dialects:

Pali sabba-; Aśokan i.e., the language of the Inscriptions of Aśoka, Shāhbāzgaṛhī, Mānsehrā, and Girnār Rock Inscription of Aśoka sarva-; Kālsī, Dhauli, and Jaugaḍa Rock Inscription of Aśoka sava; Gāndhārī or Northwest Prakrit sarva-, sava-; Language of ‘Kharoṣṭhī Inscriptions discovered by Sir Aurel Stein in Chinese Turkestan’ sarvas̱a°; Prakrit savva-; Apabhraṁśa sā̆vasā̆hu; Gypsy or Romani, European (Gypsy) savorosaró; English sor; Armenian savə; Ashkun, sewsawák; Kati or Katei ; Prasun sučṓ; Waigalī sabsap (loanword from Indo-Aryan of India proper excluding Kafiri and Dardic), Tōrwālī (Dardic) sōw, Niṅgalāmī (Dardic) ṣōka; Shuṃashti šauke; Bashkarīk (Dardic) sūo; Kashmiri and Ḍoḍī (Sirājī of Ḍoḍā; a dialect of Kashmiri in Jammu) sabbaṇē; Sindhī sabhusabha; Lahndā sabbho (f. sabbhā), sabhā, habbahabbh; Awāṇkārī (dialect of Lahndā) habhā; Poṭhwārī (dialect of Lahndā) habbā, habbhhabh; Panjābī sabhsabbhe; West Pahāṛī and Bhadrawāhī (dialect of West Pahāṛī) sebbh; pāḍarī sub-dialect of Bhadrawāhī (dialect of West Pahāṛī) sōbh; Paṅgwāḷī (dialect of Shina) sabh; Kumaunī sab; Gaṅgoī (dialect of Kumaunī) śΛpśΛppε; Nepāli and Bengali sab; Oṛiyā sabo, sabusabā; Maithilī sab, sabh; Bhojpurī sabh; Awadhī and Lakhīmpurī (dialect of Awadhī) sab; Hindī sab, sabh; Old Mārwāṛī saba; Old Gujarātī sahu, savi; Gujarātī sāvsahu, sau; Sinhalese sav, hav.

All these cognates and the following words related to sárva originate from the Tamil root iṟai.

sarvajña, “omniscient.” sarvátra, “everywhere.” sarvátha, see sarvátra. sarvākāram, “in all ways.”

 

English words derived from Tamil iṟai connoting ‘staying place’