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