sermonette
‘a short sermon’
Lexical development traced from the Tamil root:
E. sermonet < sermon ‘a discourse upon a text of scripture; that which is preached’+ -ette < O.F. -et < Vulgar Lat. -ittum / -itta < et < -et < Tamil iṭṭu
sermonette
English words derived from iṭṭu connoting 'small'