squat
‘to thrust, crush, flatten, sit in a crouching attitude’
Lexical development traced from the Tamil root:
E. sqwat, sqwate, squatte, squot < O.F. esquatir, escatir ‘compress, lay flat, crush’ < es- ‘out’ + O.F. quatir ‘press down, flatten’ < Vulgar Lat. coactire ‘press together, force’ < Lat. coactus < cogere ‘to compel, curdle, collect’ < com ‘together’ + agere ‘to set in motion, drive, drive forward; to do, perform’ < ak < ag- < Tamil ukai