mitigate
‘to make or become mild, alleviate’
Lexical development traced from the Tamil root:
E. mytygate < Lat. mitigatus < mitigare ‘soften, make tender, ripen, mellow, tame’ < mitis ‘gentle, soft’ + agere ‘to do, perform’ < ugh < ag- < Tamil ukai
mitigate
English words derived from Tamil ukai connoting ‘going forward’