Where does “cachemire” come from?
cachemire (Italian) comes from French cachemire, from Sanskrit कश्मीर, from Sanskrit कश्यपमीर, from Sanskrit कश्यप, from Proto-Indo-Aryan kaśyápas, from Proto-Indo-Iranian kaćyápas — turtle.
cachemire (Italian): cashmere
Ancestry of “cachemire”, step by step