genteel 

‘well-bred, refined, sophisticated’

Lexical development traced from the Tamil root:

    E. gentile, genteel, gentil < F. gentil ‘stylish, fashionable, elegant; nice, graceful, pleasing’ < O.F. gentil ‘high-born, noble’ < Lat. gentilis ‘of the same family or clan’ < gens ‘race, clan’< jen < gene- < Tamil īṉ

 

English words derived from Tamil īṉ connoting 'beget'