variegate
‘to diversify, to mark, spot, or streak with different colors, to give variety to’
Lexical development traced from the Tamil root:
E. variagate < La.Lat. variegatus ‘made of various sorts or colors’ < variegare ‘diversify with different colors’ < varius ‘spotted, changing, varying’ + agere ‘to do, perform’ < ugh < ag- < Tamil ukai