bullet-proof

'capable of resisting the impact of a bullet’

Lexical development traced from the Tamil root:

     bullet < F. boulette ‘cannonball’ < boule < Lat. bulla ‘round thing’ + -et < O.F. -et,-ette < Vulgar Lat. -ittum / -itta+ proof < uht < -et < Tamil iṭṭu