pirouette
‘a rapid whirling on one leg or on the points of the toes’
Lexical development traced from the Tamil root:
E. piroite, piroet, pyroet < F. pirouette ‘spinning top’ < Gallo-Rom. pir- ‘peg, plug’ + -ette < O.F. -et < Vulgar Lat. -ittum / -itta < et < -et < Tamil iṭṭu