amour
‘love, affection, friendship; loved one, a love affair, especially an illicit one’
Lexical development traced from the Tamil root:
E. amoure, amur < O.F. amor ‘love, affection, friendship; loved one’ < Lat. amor ‘love, affection, strong friendly feeling’ < amare ‘to love’ < Proto-Ital. ama- ‘to take, hold’ < amaw < Tamil amar