apprenticeship
‘one bound by legal agreement to work for another for a specific amount of time in return for instruction in a trade, an art, or a business’
Lexical development traced from the Tamil root:
E. apprentiship(pe) < apprentice + M.E. -schipe < O.E. -sciepe < A. -scip ‘state, condition of being’ < Proto-G. -skepi- < skap- ‘to create, ordain, appoint’ < ship < (s)kep- < Tamil kappu