serviette
‘a piece of cloth used in serving a meal; a napkin’
Lexical development traced from the Tamil root:
E. saruyet, serviet, servite, schirueit, serrviot, serwiat < O.F. serviette ‘napkin, towel’ <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’ < suhv < seruo- < Tamil iṟai