varlet‘an attendant or a servant’
Lexical development traced from the Tamil root:
E. varlett, varlette, varlot < O.F. varlet < O.F. vassal ‘subject, subordinate, servant’ < Med.Lat. vassall us ‘manservant, domestic, retainer’ < vassus ‘servant’ < O.Ce. wasso-‘young man, squire’ < val < upo < Tamil uppu