auburn
‘light-colored’
Lexical development traced from the Tamil root:
E. aborne, alborne, aberne, auburn(e), abron, abrown < O.F. auborne < Med.Lat. alburnus ‘off-white, whitish’ < Lat. albus ‘white’ < awb < albho- < Tamil el
auburn
English words derived from Tamil el connoting ‘rising’