conscience
‘moral sense of right and wrong’
Lexical development traced from the Tamil root:
E. conciense, conscyens, concience, consience < O.F. conscience ‘conscience, innermost thoughts, desires, intentions; feelings’ < Lat. conscientia ‘a joint knowledge of something, a knowing of a thing together with another person; consciousness, knowledge’ < conscientem < conscire ‘be (mutually) aware; be conscious of wrong’ < La.Lat. com ‘with’ + scire ‘to know’ < scindere ‘to cut, divide’ < shns < skei- < Tamil kappu