cursory
‘running, hasty, superficial’
Lexical development traced from the Tamil root:
E. cursorie, cursary < F. cursoire ‘rapid’ < La.Lat. cursorius ‘hasty, of a race or running’ < Lat. curs- < currere ‘to run’ < kuh < kers- < Tamil kaṭu
cursory
English words derived from Tamil kaṭu connoting ‘fast, speed’