gonorrhea
‘veneral disease’
Lexical development traced from the Tamil root:
E. gon- La.Lat. gonorrhoia < Gk. gonos ‘seed, that which engenders; childbirth’ < genos ‘birth, descent’ < gon-o- + rhoe ‘flow’< gon < gene- < Tamil īṉ
gonorrhea
‘veneral disease’
Lexical development traced from the Tamil root:
E. gon- La.Lat. gonorrhoia < Gk. gonos ‘seed, that which engenders; childbirth’ < genos ‘birth, descent’ < gon-o- + rhoe ‘flow’< gon < gene- < Tamil īṉ
English words derived from Tamil īṉ connoting 'beget'