apogee
‘point at which the moon is farthest from the earth’
Lexical development traced from the Tamil root:
F. apogée < Lat. apogaeum < Gk. apogaion ‘(distance) away from the earth’ < apogaion ‘from land’ < apo- ‘off, away’ + gaia/ge ‘earth’ < apu < apo- < Tamil ava