kamichi

From French kamichi, from earlier kamityi. Borrowed from an indigenous language of the Caribbean.

kamichi (plural kamichis)

1. A South American bird with a long, slender, horn-like ornament on its head and two sharp spurs on each wing, the horned screamer, Anhima cornuta.

• “kamichi”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• “kamichi”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Presumably via French kamichi from an indigenous language of the Caribbean.

kamichi m (plural kamichi's)

1. Synonym of anioema

First attested in 1741. Borrowed from kamityi, from an indigenous language of the Caribbean.

• IPA^(key): /ka.mi.ʃi/

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kamichi m (plural kamichis)

1. kamichi

• “kamichi”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.