towelette
‘a small, usually moistened piece of paper or cloth used for cleansing’
Lexical development traced from the Tamil root:
towel ‘a piece of cloth used for dying’+ -ette < O.F. -et < Vulgar Lat. -ittum / -itta < et < -et < Tamil iṭṭu
towelette
English words derived from iṭṭu connoting 'small'