acrostic ‘a short poem’
Lexical development traced from the Tamil root:
E. accrosticke, accrostique, achrostick < Med.Lat. acrostichis < Gk. akrostikhis < akros ‘at the end, outermost’ + stikhos ‘line of verse’ < steigh ‘to stride, step, rise’ < uhk < ak < Tamil akku