reconnaissance
‘examination or survey’
Lexical development traced from the Tamil root:
F. reconnaissance ‘act of surveying’ < O.F. reconoissance ‘recognition, acknowledgement’ < O.F. reconoiss < reconoistre ‘to know again, identify, recognize’ < Lat. recognoscere ‘acknowledge, recall to mind, know again; examine; certify’ < re ‘again’ + cognoscere ‘to get to know, recognize’ < com ‘together’ + gnoscere ‘to know’ < kawn < gno- < Tamil kaṇ