androgen
‘male hormone’
Lexical development traced from the Tamil root:
andro ‘man, male’ + -gen ‘thing that produces or causes’ < F. -gène < Gk. -genes ‘born of, produced by’ < genos ‘birth,’ genea ‘race, family’ < jn < gene- < Tamil īṉ
androgen
English words derived from Tamil īṉ connoting 'beget'