piglet
‘a small or young pig’
Lexical development traced from the Tamil root:
pig ‘a large pink, brown, or black farm animal with short legs and a curved tail, kept for its meat’+ O.F. -elet (double-diminutive) < Lat. ellus + F. -et,-ette < O.F. –et < Vulgar Lat. -ittum / -itta < uht < -et < Tamil iṭṭu