hive
‘a basket for bees’
Lexical development traced from the Tamil root:
E. hýf, huive, hyve, heve < O.E. hyf ‘beehive’ (< Proto-G. hufiz < keup- ‘round container, bowl’) a cognate with Lat. cupa ‘tub, cask, tun, barrel’ < hive < kup- < Tamil kappu