abject
‘brought low in condition or status’
Lexical development traced from the Tamil root:
E. obiect, abjecte, abiect, abiecte < Lat. abiectus ‘low, crouching; common, mean, contemptible; cast down, dispirited’ < abicere ‘to throw away, cast off; degrade, humble, lower’ < ab ‘off, away from’ + iacere ‘to throw’ < ab- < apo- < Tamil ava