shive
‘a slice; sheave, a pulley’
Lexical development traced from the Tamil root:
O.E. scifa < O.S. sciva < M.Du. schive < Du. schijf < O.H.G. sciba < G. scheibe < O.Nor. skifa ‘to cut, split’ < Proto-G. skif- < shiv < skei- < Tamil kappu
shive
English words derived from Tamil kappal connoting 'ship'