subservient
‘submissive; to serve’
Lexical development traced from the Tamil root:
E. subseruient, subservient < Lat. subservientem < subservire ‘assist, serve, come to the help of, lend support’ < sub ‘under’ + Lat. servire ‘be a servant, be in service, be enslaved,’ related to servus ‘slave’ < Proto-Italic serwo- ‘shepherd,’ serwā- ‘observation’ < suhv < seruo- < Tamil iṟai