world
‘the earth and its inhabitants, the system of things, present state of existence, a planet, society’
Lexical development traced from the Tamil root:
E. verlde, warlde, werld, wurld < O.E. woruld, worold ‘human existence, the affairs of life, a long period of time, the human race, mankind, humanity, age of man’ < Proto-G. weraldi- < wer ‘man’ + ald ‘age’ < uhl < al- < Tamil al