liquidambar
‘any of several deciduous trees of the genus Liquidambar, such as the sweet gum’
Lexical development traced from the Tamil root:
E. liquid amber < liquid < F. liquide ‘wet, moist, running’ < Lat. liguidus ‘fluid, liquid, moist’ < liquere ‘be fluid’ < liqui ‘flow’ + Med.Lat. ambar < li < lik (Skeat) < Tamil aruvi