atom
‘body so small as to be incapable of division’
Lexical development traced from the Tamil root:
E. atomus, athomus, attomus < Lat. atomus ‘indivisible particle’ < Gk. atomos ‘uncut, unhewn; indivisible’ < a-, an- ‘not’ + tomos ‘a cutting’ < temnein ‘to cut’ < ay < ne- < Tamil al