mietjie, noun

Forms:
Also michi.
Origin:
Afrikaans, South African DutchShow more Afrikaans, earlier South African Dutch mietje onomatopoeic.
obs.
The Klaas’s cuckoo, Chrysococcyx klaas.
1853 Edin. New Philos. Jrnl (U.K.) LV. 82The pretty notes of the michi and diedrick.
1867 E.L. Layard Birds of S. Afr. 250Chalcites Klaasii, Mietje of Colonists.
[1936 E.L. Gill First Guide to S. Afr. Birds 108The usual call of Klaas’s Cuckoo is quite well represented by its Afrikaans name ‘mietjie’.]
[1984 G.L. Maclean Roberts’ Birds of Sn Afr. 336Afrikaans meitjie is onomatopoeic.]
The Klaas’s cuckoo, Chrysococcyx klaas.
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