vassal
'a dependent’
Lexical development traced from the Tamil root:
E. vassale, wassale, vassall, phasalle < O.F. vassal ‘subject, subordinate, servant’ < Med.Lat. vassall us ‘manservant, domestic, retainer’ < vassus ‘servant’ < O.Ce. wasso-‘young man, squire’ < vasl < upo < Tamil uppu