holocaust
'complete destruction’
Lexical development traced from the Tamil root:
O.F. holocauste < La.Lat. holocaustum < Gk. holokauston ‘a thing wholly burnt’ < holokaustos ‘burned whole’ < holos ‘whole’ + kaustos < hawl < sol- < Tamil iṟai
holocaust
English words derived from Tamil iṟai connoting ‘staying place’