Etymology

kamichi

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Today it means: 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. Full definition →

French kamichi
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  1. French · borrowed fromkamichi
  2. English todaykamichi

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

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