somber
‘gloomy, dusky’
Lexical development traced from the Tamil root:
F. sombre ‘dark, gloomy’ < La.Lat. subumbrare ‘to shadow’ < Lat. sub ‘close to, up to, towards’ < (s)up- + umbra ‘shade, shadow’ < som < upo < Tamil uppu
somber
English words derived from Tamil uppu meaning 'rising'