uṟu > ūrdhvá in other Indo-European Languages (15)
Turner’s A Comparative Dictionary of the Indo-Aryan Languages says Sanskrit word ūrdhvá denotes “erect and being above.” He also provides the cognates of ūrdhvá in other Indo-European languages and dialects:
Pali uddha-, ubbha-, uddhaṁ, ubbhaṁ; Prakrit uddha-, uḍḍha-, ubbha-; Pashai and Lauṛowānī (dialect of Pashai) úḍḍäi; Nirlāmī (dialect of Pashai) úṛe; Phalūṛa (Dardic) huṇḍ, huṇṭe, huṇḍalā; Kashmiri woḍ; Rāmbanī (dialect of Kashmiri in Jammu) ubhu; Pŏgulī (dialect of Kashmiri) ubha; Sindhī ubho; Lahndā ubbhā; Awāṇkārī (dialect of Lahndā) ubbhā; Panjābī ūbh; West Pahāṛī and Bhadrawāhī (dialect of West Pahāṛī) ùbbo; Kumaunī ubh, ubho, ublā̃; Nepāli ũbho; Assamese ubh; Bengali and Oṛiyā ubhā, ubu; Hindī ūbh; Old Mārwāṛī ūbhau; Gujarātī ūbhũ, ubhṛũ, ubhaṛ, uḍhā; Marāṭhī ubhā; Koṅkaṇī ubho; Sinhalese uḍu, uḍa, uḍin.
All these cognates and the following words related to ūrdhvá originate from the Tamil root uṟu.
*ūrdhvaṁga, ūrdhvaga-, “ascending.” *ūrdhvakaṇṭa, “bottom up.” ūrdhvaga, see *ūrdhvaṁga. *ūrdhvacchada, “covering above.” ūrdhvajānu, ūrdhvajānuka-, “raising the knees in sitting.” ūrdhvatara, “higher, more erect.” ūrdhvábāhu, “with uplifted arms.” ūrdhvamukha, “having the mouth turned up.” ūrdhvaśvāsa, “shortness of breath, asthma.” *ūrdhvastha, “standing above.” ūrdhvasthiti, “standing up, horse’s back, elevation.” *ūrdhvāgra, “standing on end, prominent.” ūrdhvāṅga, see *ūrdhvaṁga.