kraal
‘a rural village, typically consisting of huts surrounded by a stockade’
Lexical development traced from the Tamil root:
E. crawl, craal, crall, kraul < Colonial Du. kraal < Port. curral ‘pen or enclosure for animals’ < Span. corral < corro ‘ring’ < Port. curral < Vulgar Lat. currale ‘enclosure of vehicles’ < Lat. currus ‘two-wheeled vehicle’ < currere ‘to run’ < kruh < kers- < Tamil kaṭu