Words · Sanskrit
Sanskrit: N
नासा
nāsā
nose Drafted; not yet checked.
Relatives of English nose
Nothing shifted here. The n and the s held steady in every branch. Latin even has the nostrils, nārēs, from the same word with s turned to r.
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नीड
nīḍa
nest Drafted; not yet checked.
Relatives of English nest
The old word meant "a place to sit down in" (ni, down, plus sed, sit). Latin lost the z-sound of the middle, and Lithuanian changed the n at the start to l.
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