log-rolling

‘mutual aid given in carrying out several schemes or gaining individual ends’

Lexical development traced from the Tamil root:

    E. rolleing, roveing, roweing, rowlling < log < O.F. roeller ‘roll, wheel round’ < Med.Lat. rotulare < Lat. rotula < rota ‘wheel’+ing < role < ret- < Tamil uruḷ

English words derived from Tamil uruḷ connoting ‘roll’