anorexia
‘lack or loss of appetite for food’
Lexical development traced from the Tamil root:
E. anorexie < Gk. anorexia < an- ‘without’ + orexis ‘appetite, desire’ < oregein ‘to desire, long for,’literally ‘reach out (one's hand), stretch oneself, stretch out for’< rek < reg- < Tamil aracaṉ