irony
‘of or resembling iron’
Lexical development traced from the Tamil root:
E. hyrony, yrunny, yrony, irony < M.E. iron < O.E. iren variant (with rhotacism of -s-) of isen < Proto-G. isarn < Ce. isarnon + -y < is-(e)ro ‘powerful, holy’ < ai < eis < Tamil irumpu