ordain
‘to set in order, arrange, regulate, assign, decree, appoint’
Lexical development traced from the Tamil root:
E. hordan, ordainy, wordeyn, ordayne, ordine, ordeinen < O.F. ordener ‘place in order, arrange, prepare; consecrate, designate’ < Lat. ordinare ‘put in order, arrange, appoint’ < ordo ‘row, rank, series, arrangement’ < Proto-Ital. ordn ‘row, order’ < awd < ar- < Tamil ār