increase
'make greater in size or numbers’
Lexical development traced from the Tamil root:
E. incresse, increasse, increse, increace < A.F. encress- < O.F. encreiss- < Lat. increscere ‘to increase, to grow upon, grow over, swell, grow into’ < in- ‘in’ + crescere ‘to grow’ < in < en < Tamil il-iṉ