lone
‘solitary, retired, away from company’
Lexical development traced from the Tamil root:
(shortening of alone ‘quite by oneself, being apart from others, being without anyone or anything else, solitary’)
E. loan, lane, lain < O.E. all ana ‘unaccompanied, all by oneself’ literally ‘wholly oneself’ < all ‘all, wholly’ + an ‘one’ < O.E. an (pronoun) ‘one’ < Proto-G. ainaz < one < oi-no- < Tamil oṉṟu