kaṭu (sharpness) > śará in other Indo-European Languages (25)
Turner’s A Comparative Dictionary of the Indo-Aryan Languages says Sanskrit word śará means “reed from which arrows are made, the reed Saccharum sara, and arrow.” He also provides the cognates of Sanskrit śará in other Indo-European languages and dialect:
Pali and Prakrit sara-; Kati or Katei šuŕ; Kalasha and Rumbūr (dialect of Kalasha) šǟŕ; Kashmiri har, hürü; Sindhī saru; Lahndā and Panjābī sar; Kumaunī saro, sarī; Nepāli sar; Bengali sar; Oṛiyā sara; Hindī sar, sarā, sarī, sariyā; Gujarātī sariyɔ; Marāṭhī sar, sarā; Sinhalese siri.
All these cognates and the following words related to śará originate from the Tamil root kaṭu (sharpness).
śarapattra, “*having spear-like leaves (the tree Tectona grandis).” śáru, “missile; arrow.” śárya, “arrow.” *śaryaka- and śaryā-, “porcupine.” *śaryārūpa, “porcupine.” śalá¹, “staff, dart, spear.” śalā́kā, “any small stake or stick.” śalyá-¹, “arrow, javelin, anything lodged in the body and causing pain (applied inter alia to dead foetus).” śalyayati, “hurts, torments.” *śalyaśaṅku, “spiked stick.” śala², “porcupine-quill.” śalalī́, “porcupine-quill.” *śālala-, “porcupine.” śalya-², “porcupine.” śályaka, “porcupine.” śallaka-, see śályaka-. triśalá, “three bristles long.” *dhūrśala, “pole and pin.” *yugaśala, “yoke and pin.” śilī, “dart, arrow.” *śēlla- and sēla, “a kind of weapon.” śilīmukha, “arrow, bee.”