august
‘inspiring reverence and admiration, solemnly grand’
Lexical development traced from the Tamil root:
E. agust < Lat. augustus ‘venerable, majestic, magnificient, noble,’ perhaps originally ‘consecrated by the augurs, with favorable auguries’ < augur a religious official in ancient Rome, perhaps (de Vaan) originally meaning ‘an increase in crops enacted in ritual’ < O.Lat. augos ‘increase,’ related to Lat. augere ‘increase’ < awg < aug- < Tamil ākutal