kaṭu (movement) > cará1 in other Indo-European Languages (73)
Turner’s A Comparative Dictionary of the Indo-Aryan Languages says Sanskrit word cará1 denotes “moving and spy,” and it is derived from Sanskrit root car, meaning “move.” He also sets forth cognates of Sanskrit cará1 in other Indo-European languages and dialects:
Pali cara-, caraka-; Language of ‘Kharoṣṭhī Inscriptions discovered by Sir Aurel Stein in Chinese Turkestan’ cara-puruṣa; Prakrit cara-, caraya-, cariya-; Kashmiri ċar; Shina ċər, ċəri. Bengali car.
All these cognates and the following words related to cará1 originate from Tamil kaṭu (movement).
*kara-, “(√car) moving.” divākará, “sun.” niśākara, “moon.” cañcarin, “*moving rapidly, bee.” cañcarīti, “moves rapidly or repeatedly.” cáraka-, “wanderer; spy.” *cára2, “movement.” ēkacara, “wandering alone, solitary.” bhikṣācara and bhikṣācarī, “mendicant.” *mahiṣacāra, “grazing for buffaloes.” vanēcara- and vanacara-, “forest-dweller, forest animal.” gōcara, “pasture ground.” *gōcaravartman, “cattle path.” gōcāraka, “cowherd.” duścara, “difficult to pass.” dúścarita, “misbehaviour.” *duścāra, “ill-behaved.” cáraṇa, “going about, grazing, behaviour.” cárati, “moves, grazes.” carátha, “wandering.” carā, “moving.” caritá, “course, behaviour.” carítra, “foot, leg, going, behaviour.” caryā, “conduct, going about.” carya-, “to be practised.” cāra¹, “*one who moves about, spy.” cāra², “motion, course, *grazing, *fodder.” cāraka, “setting in motion, herdsman.” *cakracāra, “course of a wheel.” cakracārin, “flying in a circle.” *bhūmicāra, “wandering over the earth.” *madhyacāra, “going between.” *vargacāra, “pasture.” sahacārá, “going together.” sahacārin-, “companion.” cārikā, “journey.” cārin, “moving, spy.” *cārādya, “grazing.” mahiṣacara, “riding on a buffalo.” cāraṇa, “in gō-cāraṇa- grazing cattle.” *cāraṇī, “sieve.” cāráyati, “causes to move, shakes, grazes.” *cāri, “grass.” abhicara, “servant.” ā́carati, “comes near, proceeds, behaves.” ācāra, “mode of action.” *ācārayati, see ā́carati. ācāríya- and ācāryà-, “teacher.” ācāryà-, see ācāríya-. úccarati, “rises; utters, speaks.” uccārayati, “utters, cries.” uccārayati, see úccarati. udācāra, “place for walking.” udā́carati, “rises out of.” upacára, “approach, attendance.” upacārá, “present.” úpacarati, “approaches, attends.” upacārá, “approach, behaviour, service.” upacāriṇī, “serving, attending on.” níścarati, “comes forth.” niścāraka, “voiding excrement.” niścārayati, “makes issue.” vícarati, “moves in different directions, behaves, ponders.” vicāra, “mode of action, pondering.” vyabhicāra, “going apart, transgression.” sáṁcarati, “meets, approaches, wanders about, traverses.” saṁcāra, “walking about, passage, transit.” sáṁcārayati, “causes to come together.” samācarati, “accomplishes, removes.”