kitchenette

‘a small kitchen, an alcove or part of a room equipped with kitchen facilities, a flat or apartment having kitchen facilities provided within the main living room’

Lexical development traced from the Tamil root:

    kitchen ‘room in which food is cooked, part of a building fitted out for cooking’ + -ette < O.F. -et < Vulgar Lat. -ittum / -itta < et < -et < Tamil iṭṭu

  English words derived from iṭṭu connoting 'small'