schistosome
‘kind of parasitic worm’
Lexical development traced from the Tamil root:
Gk. skhistos ‘divided, cloven’ < skhizo- ‘irregular’ < skhizein ‘to split, cleave, part, separate’ + sōma ‘body’ < skitsoh < skei- < Tamil kappu
schistosome
English words derived from Tamil kappal connoting 'ship'