applet
‘a small application program especially one that performs a simple function within a larger body of software such as a web browser or operating system’
Lexical development traced from the Tamil root:
application ‘the bringing of something to bear on something else’ + O.F. -elet (double-diminutive) < Lat. ellus + F. -et, -ette < O.F. –et < Vulgar Lat. -ittum / -itta < uht < -et < Tamil iṭṭu