solicit
‘petition’
Lexical development traced from the Tamil root:
E. solicit, solycite, solissit, solysset < O.F. soliciter, solliciter < Lat. solicitare, sollicitare ‘to disturb, rouse, trouble, harass; stimulate, provoke’ < sollicitus ‘agitated’ < sollus ‘whole, entire’ + citus ‘aroused’ < sol < sol- < Tamil iṟai