abbey
‘a convent supervised by an abbess’
Lexical development traced from the Tamil root:
E. abbai, abbeie, abey < A.F. abbeie < O.F. abaïe < La.Lat. abbatia < Lat. abbas < Gk. abbas < Aram. abba ‘the father, my father’ < abh ‘father’ < abee < Tamil appā