servitude
‘a piece of cloth used in serving a meal; a napkin’
Lexical development traced from the Tamil root:
E. scheruitude, seruitud, serwytyde, seruitude, seruytude < O.F. servitude, servitude < La.Lat. servitudo ‘slavery’ < Lat. servus‘a slave’ < Proto-Italic serwo- ‘shepherd,’ serwā- ‘observation’ + -tude < suhv < seruo- < Tamil iṟai