pedagogue
‘a teacher, pedant’
Lexical development traced from the Tamil root:
E. petagoge, petegoge, pedagoge, paedagogue < O.F. pedagoge ‘teacher of children’ < Lat. paedagogus < Gk. paidagōgos ‘slave who escorts boys to school and generally supervises them’ < pais ‘child’ + agōgos ‘leader’ < agein ‘to lead’ < ugh < ag- < Tamil ukai