actual
‘existing and not merely potential or possible, being, existing, or acting at the present moment, exhibited in acts’
Lexical development traced from the Tamil root:
E. actuale, actuel, actuelle, actuall < O.F. actuel ‘now existing, up to date’ < La.Lat. actualis ‘active, pertaining to action’ < Lat. actus ‘a doing’ < ak < ag- < Tamil ukai