arriviste
‘a pushy, ambitious person’
Lexical development traced from the Tamil root:
E. arrivist < F. arriviste < O.F. ariver ‘to come to land’ < arriver ‘to arrive’ < Vulgar Lat. arripare ‘to touch the shore’ < Lat. ad ripam ‘to the shore’ < ad + ripa ‘(steep) bank of a river, shore’ < rai < rei- < Tamil aruvi