assume
'take to or upon oneself’
Lexical development traced from the Tamil root:
Lat. assumere ‘to take up, take to oneself, take besides, obtain in addition’ < ad ‘to, toward, up to’ + sumere ‘to take’ < Lat. sub ‘close to, up to, towards’ < (s)up- + emere ‘to take’ < syoo < upo < Tamil uppu