survive
‘to over live, outlive’
Lexical development traced from the Tamil root:
E.survyve < A.F. survivre < O.F. souvivre < Mod.F. survivre < Lat. supervivere ‘live beyond, live longer than’ < super ‘over, beyond,’ ‘above, over, on the top (of), beyond, besides, in addition to’ + vivere ‘to live’ < suhv < uper < Tamil uppu