gentry
‘noble birth, high rank by birth, an upper class’
Lexical development traced from the Tamil root:
E. gentrie, genterye, ientrie, gentre, gentire < O.F. genterie, genterise, variant of gentelise ‘noble birth, gentleness’ < gentil ‘high-born, noble, of good family’ < Lat. gentilis ‘of the same family or clan,’ < gens ‘race, clan,’ < gignere ‘beget’ < jen < gene- < Tamil īṉ