Where does “जिह्वक” come from?
जिह्वक (Sanskrit) comes from Sanskrit जिह्वा, from Proto-Indo-Aryan ȷ́iźʰwáH, from Proto-Indo-Iranian ȷ́iȷ́ʰwáH, from Proto-Indo-European dn̥ǵʰwéh₂s — tongue.
जिह्वक (Sanskrit): tongue
Ancestry of “जिह्वक”, step by step
Words derived from “जिह्वक”