रन्ध्र

Etymology
From, from , from , from. Cognate with 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬 (whence 🇨🇬). Since the semantic shift from “loins” to “fissure” seems unlikely compared to the reverse, it is possible that Sanskrit preserves the original sense of the word as “fissure”, which was lost in the other branches; thus the unattested verbal sense of the root may have been *“to split apart” or similar.

An alternative etymology compares 🇨🇬 (modern 🇨🇬) and 🇨🇬, which would point to PIE, but the modern consensus on and its Germanic cognates is that they are related to , in which the initial *h (< PIE *k or *ḱ) precludes the possibility of relationship with.

Noun

 * 1) a slit, split, opening, aperture, hole, chasm, fissure, cavity
 * 2) the vulva
 * 3) a defect, fault, flaw, imperfection