bullet
'a small, little ball, cannonball’
Lexical development traced from the Tamil root:
E. bollet(te), boolet, boullette, bullot < F. boulette ‘cannonball’ < boule < Lat. bulla ‘round thing’ + -et < O.F. -et,-ette < Vulgar Lat. -ittum / -itta < uht < -et < Tamil iṭṭu