kaṇṭu > khaṇḍá in other Indo-European Languages (10)
Turner’s A Comparative Dictionary of the Indo-Aryan Languages says Sanskrit word khaṇḍá means “broken and crippled.” He also lists cognates of khaṇḍá in other Indo-European languages and dialects:
Pali khaṇḍa-, khanḍikā-; Prakrit khaṁḍa-, khaṁḍiā-; Gypsy and South-East European dialects of Gypsy xai̦i; Greek (dialect of European Gypsy) xandí, xanrík, xarno; Rumanian and Bohemian (dialect of European Gypsy) xarno; Italian (dialect of European Gypsy) xarnišeró; Pashai and Lauṛowānī (dialect of Pashai) khaṇḍā, khaṇḍī; Gawar-Bati khaṇḍa; Kalasha and Russian (dialect of European Gypsy) khōṇḍa; Kashmiri khonḍᵘ, khünḍü; Sindhī khanu, khanī; Lahndā khannī; Panjābī khannā, khannī; Kumaunī dwī-khan, khānuṛo; Nepāli khãṛeuli; Assamese khãrā; Bengali khān, khānā, khāni; Bihārī khaṇḍā, khā̃ṛī; Bhojpurī khā̃ṛā; Hindī khaṇḍā; Gujarātī khā̃ḍũ; Marāṭhī khā̃ḍ, khā̃ḍoḷẽ; Sinhalese kaḍa.
All these cognates and the following words related to khaṇḍá originate from Tamil kaṇṭu.
khaṇḍ, “break.” *khaṇḍaghara, “ruined house.” khaṇḍana, “breaking.” khaṇḍitá, “broken (especially of teeth).” khaṇḍu, “sugar.” *khaṇḍuśālā, “sugar factory.” *khāṇḍavavatī, “containing sugar-candy.” *vikhaṇḍati, “breaks in pieces.” kháṇḍatē, “breaks.”