servient
‘subservient position; a servant’
Lexical development traced from the Tamil root:
E.seruient < Lat. servientem ‘subordinate’ < Lat. servire ‘be a servant, be in service, be enslaved,’ related to servus ‘slave’ < Proto-Italic serwo- ‘shepherd,’ serwā- ‘observation’ < suhv < seruo- < Tamil iṟai