aught
‘zero’
Lexical development traced from the Tamil root:
E. æht, eaht, ahte, auȝt < (faulty seperation of ) a naught < noht, naht ‘nothing’ < O.E. nawiht ‘nothing’ < na ‘no’ + wiht ‘thing, creature, being’ < awt < ne- < Tamil al
aught
English words derived from Tamil al connoting 'negation'