āyiram > sahásra in other East Indo-European Languages (4)
Turner’s A Comparative Dictionary of the Indo-Aryan Languages says Sanskrit word sahásra means “a thousand.” He also provides the cognates of sahásra in other Indo-European languages and dialects:
Pali sahassa-; Aśokan i.e. the language of the Inscriptions of Aśoka, Shāhbāzgaṛhī and Girnār Rock Inscriptions of Aśoka sahasra-; Kālsī Rock Inscription of Aśoka ṣahaṣa-; Gāndhārī sahasa-; Language of ‘Kharoṣṭhī Inscriptions discovered by Sir Aurel Stein in Chinese Turkestan’ sahasra; Prakrit sahassa-, sahāsa-, sahasa-; Shina sās, sā̃s; Kashmiri sās; Sindhī sahasu; Maithilī sahas; Old Awadhī sahasa; Hindī sahas; Old Gujarātī sahasa; Maldivian (dialect of Sinhalese) hās, hāhe.
All these cognates and the following words related to sahásra originate from the Tamil root āyiram.
sahasrín-, “numbering 1000.” sāhasrá, “amounting to 1000, thousandfold.” śatasahasra, “100,000.”