kneel
‘to fall on the knees’
Lexical development traced from the Tamil root:
E. cnylen, knele, knyl, kneele< O.E. cneowlian ‘to kneel, fall on the knees’ < Proto-G. knewljan < nee < genu- < Tamil kaṇu
kneel
English words derived from Tamil kaṇu connoting 'joint'