succor
‘to assist, help, relieve’
Lexical development traced from the Tamil root:
E. socur, socour, succure, socure < A.F. succors ‘help, aid’ < O.F. socors, sucurres ‘aid, help, assistance’ < Med.Lat. succursus ‘help, assistance’ < Lat. succurrere ‘run to help, hasten to the aid of’ < sub ‘up to’ + currere ‘to run’ < kuh < kers- < Tamil kaṭu