lonely

‘without companions, lone, characterized by aloneness, solitary’

Lexical development traced from the Tamil root:

    lone (shortening of alone) ‘quite by oneself, being apart from others, being without anyone or anything else, solitary’ < O.E. all anaunaccompanied, all by oneself’ literally ‘wholly oneself’ < allall, wholly’ + anone’ < O.E. an (pronoun) ‘one’ < Proto-G. ainaz + -ly < one < oi-no- < Tamil oṉṟu