genocide
‘extermination of an ethnic group’
Lexical development traced from the Tamil root:
Gk. génos ‘race, kind’ + -cide ‘a killing’ < jehn < gene- < Tamil īṉ
genocide
English words derived from Tamil īṉ connoting 'beget'
genocide
‘extermination of an ethnic group’
Lexical development traced from the Tamil root:
Gk. génos ‘race, kind’ + -cide ‘a killing’ < jehn < gene- < Tamil īṉ
English words derived from Tamil īṉ connoting 'beget'