gnomic
‘full of instructive sayings’
Lexical development traced from the Tamil root:
F. gnomique < La.Lat. gnomicus ‘concerned with maxims, didactic’ < Gk. gnōmikos < gnōmē ‘a means of knowing, a mark, token; the mind (as the organ of knowing), thought, judgment, intelligence; a judgment, opinion; maxim, the opinion of wise men’ < gignōskein ‘to come to know’ < nohm < gno- < Tamil kaṇ