starlet
‘a small star; a young performer’
Lexical development traced from the Tamil root:
star ‘a celestial body appearing as a luminous point’ + O.F. -elet (double-diminutive) < Lat. ellus + F. -et,-ette < O.F. –et < Vulgar Lat. -ittum/-itta < uht < -et < Tamil iṭṭu