exiguous
‘scanty, meagre’
Lexical development traced from the Tamil root:
Lat. exiguus ‘small, short; petty, paltry, poor, mean; scanty in measure or number; strict’ < exigere ‘to drive out, take out’ < ex ‘out’ + agere ‘to set in motion, drive, drive forward; to do, perform’ < ig < ag- < Tamil ukai