synagogue

‘a building or place of meeting for worship and religious instruction in the Jewish faith; a congregation of Jews for worship’

Lexical development traced from the Tamil root:

  E. sinagoge, synagog(e), synagogge, senegog < O.F. sinagoge ‘synagogue, mosque, pagan temple’ < La.Lat. synagoga ‘congregation of Jews’ < Gk. synagōgē  ‘place of assembly, meeting, assembly’ < synagein ‘to gather, bring together, assemble’ < syn- ‘together’ + agein ‘put in motion, move’ < ugh < ag- < Tamil ukai

English words derived from Tamil ukai connoting ‘going forward’