candy
‘crystallized sugar’
Lexical development traced from the Tamil root:
E. candy, candie < candy ‘crystallized sugar’ < O.F. çucre candi ‘sugar candy’ < Arab. qandi < Pers. qand ‘cane sugar’ < Skt. khanda ‘piece (of sugar)’ < perhaps a Dravidian source (cf.: Tam. kantu ‘candy,’ kattu ‘to harden, condense’) < kand < Tamil kaṇṭu