abdicate
‘to disown, disinherit (children)’
Lexical development traced from the Tamil root:
E. abdicate < Lat. abdicatus < abdicare ‘to disown, disavow, reject’ < ab ‘off, away from’ + dicare ‘proclaim’ < ab < apo- < Tamil ava
abdicate
English words derived Tamil ava connoting ‘diminution, blemish’