tea-cup
‘a small cup used with a saucer for serving tea’
Lexical development traced from the Tamil root:
tea- + O.E. cuppe < O.Nort. copp < La.Lat. cuppa ‘cup’ < Lat. cupa ‘tub, cask, tun, barrel’ < kuhp < kup- < Tamil kappu
tea-cup
English words derived from Tamil kappal connoting 'ship'