country
‘one’s native land’
Lexical development traced from the Tamil root:
E. conntre,contree, contrie, cuntre < O.F. contree, cuntree < Vulgar Lat. contrāta regiō ‘region lying opposite’ < Lat. contrā ‘opposite, against’ + regiō ‘region’ < regere ‘to direct, rule’ < ree < reg- < Tamil aracaṉ
Note: Chambers Dictionary relates the word country to the phrase from Vulgar Latin ‘contrāta regiō’ the source of the Latin base form regere of the PIE *reg- meaning ‘to direct, rule’.