roll-call
‘act of calling over a list of names’
Lexical development traced from the Tamil root:
E. rol col < 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’ + call < role < ret- < Tamil uruḷ