rondel
‘a short poem in a fixed form consisting of thirteen or fourteen lines on two rhymes, with regular repetitions’
Lexical development traced from the Tamil root:
E. rondeal, rondelle, rondell, rondle < O.F. rondel ‘short poem’ < roont ‘circular’ < A.F. rounde < O.F. roont < redond < Vulgar Lat. retundus < Lat. rotundus ‘like a wheel, circular, round,’ related to Lat. rota ‘a wheel, a potter’s wheel; wheel for torture’ < rawnd < ret- < Tamil uruḷ