malign
‘malicious, evil in disposition (of character or nature)’
Lexical development traced from the Tamil root:
E. maling, malinge, malygne, malingne, malinge < O.F. malignier ‘to plot, deceive, pervert,’ La.Lat. malignare ‘to do maliciously’ < Lat. malignus ‘wicked, bad-natured’ < male ‘badly’ + gnus ‘born’ < gignere ‘to bear, beget’ < gne < gene < Tamil īṉ