epigone
‘a second-rate imitator or follower’
Lexical development traced from the Tamil root:
Gk. epigonoi, plural of epigonos ‘offspring, successor, posterity’ < epi ‘close upon (in time)’ + -gonos ‘birth, offspring’ < gignesthai ‘to be born,’ related to genos ‘birth, descent’ < gon < gene < Tamil īṉ