orient
‘the direction in which sun rises; eastern countries where sun rises first’
Lexical development traced from the Tamil root:
O.F. orient ‘east’ < Lat. orientem ‘the rising sun, the east, part of the sky where the sun rises’ < originem ‘a rise, commencement, beginning, source; descent, lineage, birth’ < oriri ‘arise, rise, get up; appear above the horizon, become visible; be born, be descended, receive life’ < awree < heri- < Tamil el