impunzi, noun

Origin:
IsiZulu.
obs.
The common duiker (see duiker sense 1 b), Sylvicapra grimmia. Also (Englished form) impoon.
1839 W.C. Harris Wild Sports 386Cephalopus Mergens. The Duiker. Duikerbok of the Cape Colonists. Impoon of the Matabili.
1860 D.L.W. Stainbank Diary. (Killie Campbell Africana Library KCM8680) 12 JuneI went out early in the morning to see if I could get a buck but only saw one impunzi.
1868 Chambers’s Encycl. X. 570Impoon (Antilope or Cepahlopus mergens),..a small species of antelope, very plentiful in South Africa, in wooded districts.
1908 F.C. Slater Sunburnt SouthGlossary, Impunzi, A species of Antelope.
The common duiker (see duiker sense 1 b), Sylvicapra grimmia. Also (Englished form) impoon.
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