ingenious
'having intelligence, skill, honesty, frankness, or showing cleverness, noble disposition’
Lexical development traced from the Tamil root:
O.F. ingenios, engeignos ‘clever’ < Lat. ingeniosus ‘of good natural capacity, full of intellect, clever, gifted with genius’ < ingenium ‘innate qualities, ability; inborn character’ < in ‘in’ + gignere ‘to beget’ < gen(e)-yo- < jeen < gene- < Tamil īṉ