archaeo-
a word forming element meaning ‘ancient’
Lexical development traced from the Tamil root:
E. archaio, archeo < Gk. arkhaios ‘ancient, primeval’ < arkhē ‘beginning’ < arkhein ‘to be the first’ < aak < Tamil aracaṉ
archaeo-
English words derived from Tamil aracaṉ connoting 'rule'