-genous
word forming element meaning ‘generating, producing, yielding’
Lexical development traced from the Tamil root:
-gen < F. -gène < Gk. -genes ‘born of, produced by’ < genos ‘birth,’ genea ‘race, family’+ -ous < juhn < gene < Tamil īṉ
-genous
English words derived from Tamil īṉ connoting 'beget'