desert
'fact of deserving a certain treatment (for good or ill) for one’s behavior’
Lexical development traced from the Tamil root:
E. desart, dyserte, dissert, decert(e), desserte, deserte < O.F. deserte ‘merit, recompense’ < deservire ‘be worthy to have’ < Lat. deservire ‘serve well’ < de- ‘completely’ + servire ‘be a servant, be in service, be enslaved,’ related to servus ‘slave’ < Proto-Italic serwo- ‘shepherd,’ serwā- ‘observation’< zuht < seruo- < Tamil iṟai