conscious
‘aware’
Lexical development traced from the Tamil root:
E. concious, consious < Lat. conscius ‘knowing, aware’ < conscire ‘be (mutually) aware’ < com ‘with or thoroughly’ + scire ‘to know’ < O.F. science ‘knowledge, learning, application; corpus of human knowledge’ < Lat. scientia ‘knowledge, a knowing; expertness’ < sciens ‘intelligent, skilled’ < scire ‘to know’ < scindere ‘to cut, divide’ < shuhs < skei- < Tamil kappu