ringlet
‘a small ring made of metal or other material, circlet’
Lexical development traced from the Tamil root:
E. ringlette < ring ‘circlet of metal’+ O.F. -elet (double-diminutive) < Lat. ellus + F. -et,-ette < O.F. –et < Vulgar Lat. -ittum / -itta < uht < -et < Tamil iṭṭu