guardianship
‘one that guards, watches over, or protects’
Lexical development traced from the Tamil root:
guardian + M.E. -schipe < O.E. -sciepe < A. -scip ‘state, condition of being’ < Proto-G. -skepi- < skap- ‘to create, ordain, appoint’ < shuhp < (s)kep- < Tamil kappu