kaṇu > hánu in other Indo-European Languages (3)
Turner’s A Comparative Dictionary of the Indo-Aryan Languages says Sanskrit word hánu means “jaw.” He also provides the cognates of hánu in other Indo-European languages and dialects:
Pali hanu-, hukā-; Prakrit haṇu-, haṇuyā-; Khowār hunú, unú; Lahndā haṇū̃, haṇṇh; Awāṇkārī (dialect of Lahndā) haṇū̃; Khetrānī (dialect of Lahndā) haṇēhā̃; Assamese hanu; Bengali hanu; Bihārī and Maithilī hanuā; Hindī hanū; Marāṭhī haṇū, haṇvaṭī, haṇvaṭḷī; Koṅkaṇī haṇu; Sinhalese anu.
The above cognates and the following words related to hánu originate from the Tamil root kaṇu.
hanūmant, “the monkey chief.” *śaṅkhahanu, “temple and chin.”