notify
‘to make (something) known, to tell’
Lexical development traced from the Tamil root:
E. notefye, notyfie, notyfy, notifie < O.F. notefiier ‘make known, inform, apprise’ < Lat. notificare ‘to make known, notify’ < notus ‘known’ + facere ‘make, do’ < note < gno- < Tamil kaṇ