roundelay
‘song in which a line or refrain is continually repeated’
Lexical development traced from the Tamil root:
E. roundelay, roundeley, roundley, roundelaye < F. rondelet < rondel ‘short poem with a refrain’ < O.F. rond ‘circle, sphere’ < roont < (probably) redond < Vulgar Lat. retundus < Lat. rotundus ‘like a wheel, circular, round,’ related to rota ‘wheel, a potter’s wheel; wheel for torture’+ lay < rawnd < ret- < Tamil uruḷ