rotund

‘round, spherical, globular; rounded out, bulbous’

Lexical development traced from the Tamil root:

    E. rotunde < Lat. rotundus ‘rolling, round, circular, spherical, like a wheel’ < Lat. rota ‘a wheel, a potter’s wheel; wheel for torture’ < roht < ret- < Tamil uruḷ

English words derived from Tamil uruḷ connoting ‘roll’