scudo
‘old Italian silver coin current’
Lexical development traced from the Tamil root:
E. scudis < Lat. scutum ‘a shield’ < O.N.F. escuchon < O.F. escusson ‘half-crown (coin); coat of arms, heraldic escutcheon’ < Vulgar Lat. scutionem < Lat. scutum ‘shield’ < skoito- ‘piece of wood, sheath, shield’ < skoodh < skei- < Tamil kappu
Miscellaneous:
The base forms of the following words in the East and West Indo-European languages found in Online Etymology and other dictionaries are given as follows:
Lat. scindere ‘to cut, divide,’ skoito- ‘piece of wood, sheath, shield’; G. schaffen ‘shape, create, produce’; Arab. sifr ‘cipher.’