statuette
‘a small statue or figurine; a statue that is less than life-size’
Lexical development traced from the Tamil root:
O.F. statue + -ette < O.F. -et < Vulgar Lat. -ittum / -itta < et < -et < Tamil iṭṭu
statuette
English words derived from iṭṭu connoting 'small'