region
‘a district, country’
Lexical development traced from the Tamil root:
E. regeoun, regioune, regyn, regyoun, regyon < A.F. regioun < O.F. region ‘land, region, province’ < Lat. regionem < regio ‘a district, portion of a country, territory, district; a direction, line; boundary line, limit’ < regere ‘to direct, rule’ < ree < reg- < Tamil aracaṉ