oxygen
‘a gas that produces compounds’
Lexical development traced from the Tamil root:
E. oxygene, oxigen, oxygine < F. oxygène < Gk. oxys ‘sharp, acid’ + -gen < F. -gene < Gk. -genes ‘born of, produced by’ < genos ‘birth,’ genea ‘race, family’ < jn < gene- < Tamil īṉ