center-field
‘the middle third of the outfield behind the second base in the baseball game’
Lexical development traced from the Tamil root:
E. center-field < center ‘middle point of a circle’ < O.F. centre < Lat. centrum ‘center’ (the fixed point of the two points of a drafting compass) < Gk. kentron ‘sharp point, goad, sting of a wasp’ < kentein ‘stitch’ + field < sent < kent- < Tamil kaṇṭam