rural
‘of, relating to, or characteristic of the country’
Lexical development traced from the Tamil root:
E. ruralle,rurale,rurall < O.F. rural < Lat. ruralis ‘of the countryside’ < rus ‘open land, country’ < M.E. roum < O.E. rum ‘space, extent; sufficient space’ < Proto-G. ruman < ruma- ‘roomy, spacious’ < roo < reue- < Tamil uṟu