quaint
‘neat, odd, whimsical’
Lexical development traced from the Tamil root:
E. koweynte, qweynte, queinte, queynt < O.F. cointe, queinte ‘knowledgeable, well-informed; clever; arrogant, proud; elegant, gracious’ < Lat. cognitus ‘known, approved’ < Lat. cognoscere ‘to get to know, recognize’ < com ‘together’ + gnoscere ‘to know’ < kvay < gno- < Tamil kaṇ
Miscellaneous:
The base form of the following word in the West Indo-European language found in Online Etymology and other dictionaries is given as follows:
Ave. zainti- ‘knowledge.’