hart
‘a male deer’
Lexical development traced from the Tamil root:
E. heorut, heorot, herte, harte < M.E. hert < O.E. heorot ‘hart, stag, male of the red deer’ < Proto-G. herutaz’ < keru- < haat < ker- < Tamil kaṭu
hart
English words derived from Tamil kaṭu connoting ‘horn’