liquor
‘any matter in a liquid state, moisture, alcoholic drink’
Lexical development traced from the Tamil root:
E. licur(e), lykour, lycor, lyquor, liquer, licquor < O.F. licor ‘fluid, liquid; sap; oil’ < Lat. liquorem (liquor) ‘a liquid, liquor’ < liquere ‘to be fluid, liquid’ < liqui ‘to melt, flow’ < li < lik (Skeat) < Tamil aruvi