अन्

From Proto-Indo-European *h₂enh₁- (“to breathe”). Cognates include Ancient Greek ἄνεμος (ánemos, “wind, breeze”), Latin animus (“life force”), Old Armenian հողմ (hołm, “wind”), Tocharian B āñme, Old English anda (“zeal, anger”), Old Irish anál (“breath”)

अन् • (an)

1. to breathe

• अन (aná, “breath, respiration”)
• अनति (ánati, “he breathes”)
• अनन (ánana, “breathing, living”)
• अनिति (ániti, “he breathes”)
• अनिल (ánila, “air, wind”)
• आन (āná, “exhaling through the nose; mouth; face”)
• आनन (ānana, “mouth; face”)

• Monier Williams (1899), “अन्”, in A Sanskrit–English Dictionary, […], new edition, Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, OCLC 458052227, page 24.
• William Dwight Whitney, 1885, The Roots, Verb-forms, and Primary Derivatives of the Sanskrit Language, Leipzig: Breitkopf and Härtel, page 3