enemy
‘hostile person or community, foe’
Lexical development traced from the Tamil root:
E. enemi(e), enemye, ennymy(e), enimye, annemy, enymy < O.F. enemi ‘enemy, adversary, foe; demon, the Devil’ < Lat. inimicus ‘an enemy’ < in- ‘not’ + amicus ‘friend,’ related to amare ‘to love’ < Proto-Ital. ama- ‘to take, hold’ < uhmee < Tamil amar