A small grig or young cricket; a tiny, lively creature.
From 'grig' plus the diminutive suffix '-et,' which was commonly used in Middle English and Old French to indicate something small or young. The suffix conveys the sense of youth and smallness.
Diminutive suffixes like '-et' are treasure maps to a word's history—they show how speakers repeatedly made big things small by following predictable patterns.
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