apothecary
‘one that prepares and sells drugs and other medicines; a pharmacist’
Lexical development traced from the Tamil root:
E. apotecary, apotecarie, apotiquary, appothecarie, apoticary < O.F. apotecaire < Mod.F. apothicaire < La.Lat. apothecarius ‘storekeeper’ < Lat. apotheca ‘storehouse’ < Gk. apothēkē ‘barn, storehouse’ < apo- ‘away’ + thēkē ‘receptacle’ < uhpaw < apo- < Tamil ava