buttercup
‘yellow-flowered ranunculus’
Lexical development traced from the Tamil root:
butter + O.E. cuppe < O.Nort. copp < La.Lat. cuppa ‘cup’ < Lat. cupa ‘tub, cask, tun, barrel’ < kuhp < kup- < Tamil kappu
buttercup
English words derived from Tamil kappal connoting 'ship'