incite
‘urge on’
Lexical development traced from the Tamil root:
E. encyte, incyte < O.F. inciter, enciter ‘stir up, excite, instigate’ < Lat. incitare ‘to put into rapid motion’ < in- ‘into, in, on, upon’ + citare ‘move, excite’ < uhn < en < Tamil il-iṉ