augment
‘to increase’
Lexical development traced from the Tamil root:
E. aument, avgement, avment, awment, augmente < O.F. augmenter ‘increase, enhance’ < La.Lat. augmentare ‘to increase’ < Lat. augmentum ‘an increase, growth’ < augere ‘to increase, make big, enlarge, enrich’ < awg < aug- < Tamil ākutal