abortion
‘cessation of normal growth’
Lexical development traced from the Tamil root:
E. abhorsion, aborsion < Lat. abortionem ‘miscarriage; abortion, procuring of an untimely birth’ < aboriri ‘to miscarry, be aborted, fail, disappear, pass away’ < ab ‘amiss’ + oriri ‘arise, rise, get up; appear above the horizon, become visible; be born, be descended, receive life’ < aws < heri- < Tamil el