generation
‘the people born and living about the same time, considered as a group’
Lexical development traced from the Tamil root:
E. generacjoun, generacon, generacyone, ieneracioun, generacione < O.F. generacion ‘race, people, species; progeny, offspring’ < Lat. generationem, generatio ‘generating, generation’ < generare ‘bring forth, beget, produce’ < genus ‘race, kind’ < juhn < gene- < Tamil īṉ