dress
‘make straight, put right, direct, guide, control, prepare for cooking’
Lexical development traced from the Tamil root:
E. drees, drese, drysse, dresse < O.F. dresser, drecier ‘raise (oneself); address, prepare; lift, raise, hoist; set up, arrange, set (a table), serve (food); straighten, put right, direct’ < Vulgar Lat. directiare ‘make straight’ < Lat. directus ‘direct, straight’ < dirigere ‘set straight’ < dis- ‘apart’ + regere ‘to direct, to guide, keep straight’ < res < reg- < Tamil aracaṉ