shave
‘to pare, strip, cut off in slices, cut off hair’
Lexical development traced from the Tamil root:
E. scaeban, schave, schavin, shaven < M.E. shaven < O.E. sceafan ‘to scrape, shave, or pare away; to polish’ < Proto-G. skaban < Goth. skaban ‘scratch, shave, scrape’ < skabh- < shayv< (s)kep- < Tamil kappu