puppet
‘a small doll, small figure of a person or an animal’
Lexical development traced from the Tamil root:
E. pupette, puppitte, puppyt, puppette, puppit < M.E. popet 'doll' + -et < O.F. -et, -ette < Vulgar Lat. -ittum / -itta < uht < -et < Tamil iṭṭu