non-
‘a prefix used freely in English and meaning ‘not, lack of’ or ‘sham’’
Lexical development traced from the Tamil root:
E. nom-, nooun-, nowne-, none- < A.F. noun- < O.F. non- < Lat. non ‘not, by no means, not at all, not a’ < O.Lat. noenum ‘not one’ < ne oinom + oi-no- ‘one, unique’ < nawn < ne- < Tamil al