antarctic
‘opposite to the arctic’
Lexical development traced from the Tamil root:
E. antartyk, antartik, antarticke, antartique < O.F. antartique < Med.Lat. antarcticus < Gk. antarktikos ‘opposite the north’ < anti- ‘opposite’ + arktikos ‘arctic’ < arktos ‘bear, the northern constellation Ursa Major’ < aak < rkto- < Tamil ar