nescience
‘lack of knowledge’
Lexical development traced from the Tamil root:
La.Lat. nescientia < Lat. nesciens ‘ignorant, unaware’ < nescire ‘not to know, to be ignorant’ < ne ‘not’ + scire ‘to know’ < nay < ne- < Tamil al
nescience
English words derived from Tamil al connoting 'negation'