Etymology

sacha inchi

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Quechua sacha
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The story

  1. Quechua · derived fromsacha“tree, forest, wild”
  2. English todaysacha inchi

From Quechua sacha (“tree, forest, wild”) + inchi (“peanut”).

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.