abbe
‘used as a title for the Superior of a monastery in a French-speaking area’
Lexical development traced from the Tamil root:
E. abbè < F. abbé < La.Lat. abbatem < O.E. abbod ‘abbot’ < Lat. abbatem < abbas < Gk. abbas < Aram. abba ‘the father, my father’ < abh ‘father’ < abe < Tamil appā