indigence
‘needy’
Lexical development traced from the Tamil root:
E. indigens, indygence < O.F. indigence ‘indigence, need, privation’ < Lat. indigentia ‘need, want; insatiable desire’ < indigentem ‘in want of, needing’ < indigere ‘to need, stand in need of’ < indu ‘in, within’ < endo + egere ‘be in need, want’ < in < en < Tamil il-iṉ