chef
‘head cook’
Lexical development traced from the Tamil root:
F. chef < chef de cuisine ‘head of the kitchen’ < O.F. chief ‘leader, ruler, head’ < Mod.F. chef < Vulgar Lat. capum < Lat. caput ‘head’ < shef < kaput- < Tamil kappu
chef
English words derived from Tamil kappal connoting 'ship'