recognize
‘to know again, acknowledge’
Lexical development traced from the Tamil root:
E. recognise, recognishe, recognyce, recognyse < O.F. reconoiss- < reconoistre ‘to know again, identify, recognize’ < Lat. recognoscere ‘acknowledge, recall to mind, know again; examine; certify’ < re- ‘again’ + Lat. cognoscere ‘to get to know, recognize’ < com ‘together’ + gnoscere ‘to know’ < kuhg < gno- < Tamil kaṇ