kaṇu > jā́nu in other Indo-European Languages (3)
Turner’s A Comparative Dictionary of the Indo-Aryan Languages says Sanskrit word jā́nu means “knee.” He also provides cognates of jā́nu in other Indo-European languages and dialects:
Pali jānu-, jānuka-; Ashkun and Waigalī zā̃; Kati zå̃, ǰå; Lahndā and Khetrānī (dialect of Lahndā) jā̃ṇu; West Pahāṛī and Bhalesī (dialect of West Pahāṛī) j̈āṇū, j̈āṇuā̃; Sinhalese dana; Prakrit jaṇhuā-; West Pahāṛī and Kashṭawāṛī (dialect of Kashmiri) j̈ὲnū; Ludhiānī (dialect of Panjābī) j̈āˋnū; Marmatī (sub-dialect of Khaśālī dialect of West Pahāṛī) j̈ònū; Cameāḷī (dialect of West Pahāṛī) jānhū̃; Prakrit jaṇṇu-; Gypsy and Palestinian (dialect of Asiatic Gypsy of the Nawar) dṓni.
The above cognates and the following words related to jā́nu originate from the Tamil root kaṇu.
*jānuvāmaya, “disease of the knee.” ūrdhvajānu, “raising the knees in sitting.”