sergeant, serjeant
‘a city police officer’
Lexical development traced from the Tamil root:
E. s(e)argeant,sargantt,sargeande,sarg(e)ante,sergaunt(e) < O.F. sergent,serjent ‘(domestic) servant, valet; court official; soldier’ < Med.Lat. servientum ‘servant, vassal, soldier’ < Lat. servire 'be a servant, be in service, be enslaved,' related to servus ‘slave’ < Proto-Italic serwo- ‘shepherd,’ serwā- ‘observation’< saa < seruo- < Tamil iṟai