abdication
‘a disowning’
Lexical development traced from the Tamil root:
Lat. abdicationem ‘voluntary renunciation, abdication’ < abdicare ‘disown, disavow, reject’ < ab ‘off, away from’ + dicare ‘proclaim’ < ab < apo- < Tamil ava
abdication
English words derived Tamil ava connoting ‘diminution, blemish’