dinette

‘a nook or alcove located in or near a kitchen and used for informal meals, a small room or area within a larger room, used for eating meals, esp. one located next to or within the kitchen’

Lexical development traced from the Tamil root:

    dine ‘eat, have a meal’ + -ette < O.F. -et < Vulgar Lat. -ittum / -itta < et < -et < Tamil iṭṭu

 

 

  English words derived from iṭṭu connoting 'small'