hamlet
‘a small village, a group of houses or small village in the country’
Lexical development traced from the Tamil root:
E. hamelat,hamillet,hamlette < O.F. hamelet < hamel ‘village’ + O.F. -elet (double-diminutive) < Lat. ellus + F. -et,-ette < O.F. –et < Vulgar Lat. -ittum / -itta < uht < -et < Tamil iṭṭu