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Turner’s A Comparative Dictionary of the Indo-Aryan Languages says Sanskrit word uṣṇá means “hot.” It is derived from the root uṣ, meaning “burn.” He also provides the cognates of uṣṇá in other Indo-European languages and dialects:
Pali uṇha-; Prakrit uṇha-, usiṇa-; Kashmiri wuśunᵘ; Hindī unāh; Gujarātī ūnũ, hunũ; Marāṭhī ūnh, ūn, ūnhūnh, unhan; Koṅkaṇī hūna; Sinhalese uṇu, uṇa; Panjābī huṭṭ.
All these cognates and the following words related to Sanskrit ushṇá originate from Tamil uṇṇam.
uṣás, “dawn.” uṣṭa², “burnt.” uṣṇakāla, “hot season.” uṣṇadhāra, “hot spring.” uṣṇapānīya, “hot water.” uṣṇayati, “heats.” uṣṇāpana-, “contraption for heating.” uṣṇavāta, “hot wind.” uṣṇāpana-, “heating.” uṣṇālaya, “hot spot.” uṣṇālu, “suffering from heat.” uṣṇiman, “heat.” uṣman-, see ūṣmán-. uṣmāyatē, see ūṣmāyatē. usrá, “ray, sun, day.” apōṣṇa, “not hot.” ūṣmán, “heat, steam.” ūṣmāyatē, “emits heat or steam.” auṣmya, “heat.” kōṣma, “warm.” gharmōṣma, “heat.” sōṣman, “warm.” ṓṣati, “burns.”