ennoble
‘make noble’
Lexical development traced from the Tamil root:
E. enoble, innoble, inoble < F. ennoblir < en + O.F. noble ‘of noble bearing or birth’ < Lat. nobilis ‘well-known, famous, renowned; excellent, superior, splendid; high-born, of superior birth’ < gnobilis ‘knowable’ < gnoscere ‘to come to know’ < noh < gno- < Tamil kaṇ