atheism
‘disbelief in the existence of God’
Lexical development traced from the Tamil root:
E. athisme < F. athéisme + Gk. atheos ‘without a god, denying the gods’ < a-, an- ‘not’ + theos ‘a god’ + ism < ay < ne- < Tamil al
atheism
‘disbelief in the existence of God’
Lexical development traced from the Tamil root:
E. athisme < F. athéisme + Gk. atheos ‘without a god, denying the gods’ < a-, an- ‘not’ + theos ‘a god’ + ism < ay < ne- < Tamil al
English words derived from Tamil al connoting 'negation'