nice
‘foolish, ignorant, frivolous, senseless’
Lexical development traced from the Tamil root:
E. necy, nysse, nycy, nise < O.F. nice ‘careless, clumsy; weak; poor, needy; simple, stupid, silly, foolish’ < Lat. nescius ‘ignorant, unaware’ < ne ‘not’ + scire ‘to know’ < nai < ne- < Tamil al