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mentioned, but I will refer to only one other example. Dr. Caldwell 

 states that ti is the classical Tamil word for "fire," but that the more 

 commonly used word is neruppu, in Telugu nippu. Here we have, no 

 doubt, the origin of the Malay api (in Samoan afi), which in Cham takes 

 the form apui. Dr. Leyden long since pointed out that the language of 

 the Malays contains a great number of Tamil, Malayalam and Telinga 

 words which are not found in Sanskrit or the allied Indian languages, and 

 particularly "a variety that are only to be found in Telinga," the ver- 

 nacular of the ancient kingdom of Kalinga.* 



*Asiat. Researches, Vol. x,'p. 171. 



