kaṇṭu > kā́ṇḍa in other Indo-European Languages (5)
Turner’s A Comparative Dictionary of the Indo-Aryan Languages says Sanskrit word kā́ṇḍa means “single joint of a plant and arrow.” He also provides the cognates of khaṇḍá in other Indo-European languages and dialects:
Pali kaṇḍa-; Prakrit kaṁḍa-, kaya-; Ashkum kaṇ; Kati kåṇ; Waigalī kāṇ, kŕä̃; Prasun kə̃; Dameli kā̆n; Pashai and Lauṛowānī (dialect of Pashai) kāṇḍ, kāṇ; Areti (dialect of Pashai) kōṇ; Kuṛaṅgali (dialect of Pashai) kō̃; Darrai-i Nūr (dialect of Pashai) kā̃ṛ, kā̃ṛī; Shuṃashti kō̃ṛ, kō̃; Gawar-Bati kāṇḍ, kāṇ; Khowār kan; Bashkarīk kāˋ; Tōrwālī kan; Savi kā̃ṛa; Phalūṛa kōṇ; Shina and Gilgitī (dialect of Shina) kōn; Palesī (dialect of Shina) kōṇ; Kashmiri kā̃ḍ; Sindhī kānu, kāno, kānī; Lahndā kānā̃, kānī˜; Panjābī kānnā, kānī; West Pahāṛī and Bhalesī (dialect of West Pahāṛī) kān; Jaunsārī (dialect of West Pahāṛī) kā̃ḍ; Nepāli kā̃ṛ, kā̃ṛo; Assamese kā̃r; Bengali kā̃ṛ, kā̃ṛā, kẽṛiyā; Oṛiyā kāṇḍa, kā̃ṛ; Bihārī kā̃ṛā; Maithilī kā̃ṛ, kā̃ṛī; Bhojpurī kaṇḍā; Hindī kā̃ṛī, kaṇḍā; Gujarātī kā̃ḍ, kā̃ḍũ, kā̃ḍī; Marāṭhī kā̃ḍ, kā̃ḍẽ, kā̃ḍī; Sinhalese kaḍaya; Assamese kāriyāiba.
The above cognates and the following words related to kā́ṇḍa originate from the Tamil root kaṇṭu.
*kāṇḍakara, “worker with reeds or arrows.” *kāṇḍārā, “bamboo-goad.” kā́ṇḍīra, “armed with arrows.” *dēhīkaṇṭha, “wall.”