enroll

‘to enter or register in a roll, list, or record’

Lexical development traced from the Tamil root:

    E. enrolly, enroule, enrowle, inrol < en + rolle < O.F. rolle ‘document, parchment scroll, decree’ < Med.Lat. rotulus ‘a roll of paper’ < Lat. rotula ‘small wheel’ < Lat. rota ‘a wheel, a potter’s wheel; wheel for torture’ < role < ret- < Tamil uruḷ

English words derived from Tamil uruḷ connoting ‘roll’