dessert
‘a serving of fruits or sweets at the end of a meal’
Lexical development traced from the Tamil root:
E. desert, disart, desart < F. dessert ‘last course’ < desservir ‘clear the table’ < des- ‘remove, undo’ + O.F. servir ‘to do duty toward, show devotion to; set table, serve at table; offer, provide with’ < Lat. servire ‘be a servant, be in service, be enslaved,’ related to servus ‘slave’ < Proto-Italic serwo- ‘shepherd,’ serwā- ‘observation’ < zuht < seruo- < Tamil iṟai