candied
‘preserved or encrusted with sugar or anything resembling it’
Lexical development traced from the Tamil root:
E. candied, canded, candid, candy’d < candy ‘crystallized sugar’+ -ed < O.F. çucre candi ‘sugar candy’ < Arab. qandi < Pers. qand ‘cane sugar’ < perhaps a Dravidian source (cf.: Tam. kantu ‘candy,’ kattu ‘to harden, condense’) < kand < Tamil kaṇṭu