precursor
‘a forerunner’
Lexical development traced from the Tamil root:
E. precursoure, praecursor, praecursour < O.F. precurseur < Lat. praecursor ‘forerunner’ < praecurrere < prae ‘before’ + currere ‘to run’ < kuh < kers- < Tamil kaṭu
precursor
English words derived from Tamil kaṭu connoting ‘fast, speed’