forlorn
‘quite lost, desolate, wretched’
Lexical development traced from the Tamil root:
O.E. forleosan ‘to lose, abandon, let go, destroy, ruin’ < for- ‘completely’ + leosan ‘to lose’ < Proto-G. lausa- < law < leu- < Tamil aṟuttal
forlorn
English words derived from Tamil aṟuttal connoting ‘cutting’