From Tamil கும்மி (kummi).

kummi (plural kummis)

1. A kind of Indian folk dance.

Borrowed either from Old Swedish gumme (“man”) (compare Swedish gumma) or from Russian кум (kum, “godfather”), кума́ (kumá, “godmother”) (compare Latvian kūma (“godparent”), Latvian kūmas (“godparent”)).

• IPA^(key): /ˈkumːi/, [ˈkumːi]
• Rhymes: -umːi
• Syllabification^(key): kum‧mi
• Hyphenation^(key): kum‧mi

kummi

1. godparent, godfather or godmother
2. an invited guest, supporter or speaker for a certain cause

• (godfather): kummisetä
• (godmother): kummitäti

• kummitus (“ghost”)

• “kummi”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎^[1] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2 July 2023