esne
‘a class of domestic slaves’
Lexical development traced from Tamil root:
O.E. esne ‘domestic slave, laborer, retainer, servant; youth, man’ < Proto-G. asnjoz- ‘harvestman’ < asanoz- ‘harvest’ < azno ‘labor’ < O.H.G. arnon ‘to reap’ < ehs < es-en- < Tamil ēr