genuflection
‘bending of the knee’
Lexical development traced from the Tamil root:
E. genuflexion < Med.Lat. genuflectionem ‘bending of the knee’ < La.Lat. genuflectere ‘genuflect’ < genuflectere ‘to bend the knee’ < Lat. genu ‘knee’ + flectere ‘to bend’ < jehn < genu-< Tamil kaṇu