reconnoiter
‘to survey, examine from a military point of view’
Lexical development traced from the Tamil root:
E. reconnoitre < O.F. reconnoitre < reconoistre ‘to identify’ < 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’ < kuhn < gno- < Tamil kaṇ