dread
‘to fear very much, be in shrinking apprehension or expectation of’
Lexical development traced from the Tamil root:
E. drede, dred, dredd(e) < O.E. adrædan < ondrædan ‘counsel or advise against’ < ond-, and- ‘against’ + rædan ‘to advise’ < Proto- G. redan < re < re- < Tamil ār