apheresis
‘suppression of a letter or syllable at the beginning of a word’
Lexical development traced from the Tamil root:
E.aphaeresis, aphaerisis < Lat. aphaeresis < Gk. aphairesis ‘a taking away’ < aphairein ‘to take away’ < apo- 'from, off' + hairein ‘to take’ < uhf < apo- < Tamil ava