iṭṭu > íṣṭakā in other Indo-European Languages (2)
Turner’s A Comparative Dictionary of the Indo-Aryan Languages says Sanskrit word íṣṭakā means “brick.” He also provides the cognates of íṣṭakā in other Indo-European languages:
Pali iṭṭhakā-; Prakrit iṭṭagā-, iṭṭā; Khowār uṣṭū; Lahndā iṭṭ, iṭṭã; Panjābī iṭṭ; Nepāli ĩṭ; Assamese iṭā; Bengali iṭ, ĩṭ; Oṛiyā iṭā; Bihārī ī˜ṭ, ī˜ṭā; Maithilī ī˜ṭā; Bhojpurī ī˜ṭⁱ; Hindī ī˜ṭh, īṭ, ī˜ṭ, īṭā; Gujarātī ĩṭⁱ; Marāṭhī īṭ, vīṭ; Koṅkaṇī īṭ; Prakrit iṭṭāla-; Bengali iṭāl, iṭal; Marāṭhī iṭhāḷ; Sinhalese uḷu.
The above cognates and the following word related to íṣṭakā originate from the Tamil root iṭṭu.
*iṣṭakālaya, “brick-mould.”