nation
‘a country; a race of people, large group of people with common ancestry and language’
Lexical development traced from the Tamil root:
E.nasyon, nacion, nacione, nasion, nacyone < nacioun ‘a race of people, large group of people with common ancestry and language’ < O.F. nacion ‘birth, rank; descendants, relatives; country, homeland’ < Lat. nationem, natio ‘birth, origin; breed, stock, kind’ < natus, nasci ‘be born’ < O.Lat. gnasci < nay < gene < Tamil īṉ