SOME MORE MALAY WORDS. 137 



kendi c a water-kettle' — Malayalim kindi, Telugu gindi, 

 Tamil Jcinni. In Malabar, it is a i vessel without a handle, 

 used to drink from/ 



misru i shot with gold, of cloth ' — Wilkinson. " Mushrues " 

 are an old trade fabric. Hobson-Jobson explains — " Pers. 

 mashru ' lawful' : it is usually applied to a kind of silk or 

 satin with a cotton back. ' Pure silk is not allowed to 

 men ' (Yusof Ali, A Monograph on Silk Fabrics produced 

 in the North-Western Provinces and Oudh, 1900). ( All 

 Mushroos wash well, especially the finer kinds, used for 

 bodices, petticoats and trousers of both sexes ' (Forbes 

 Watson, The Textile Manufactures and the Costumes of 

 the People of India, London, 1866)." 



hasi i to give/ This word does not occur in Malay literature 

 and has found its way into colloquial Malay apparently 

 from Singapore . It has never, so far as I am aware, been 

 explained. With diffidence, I venture to suggest it may 

 be derived from one of the forms of c cash ' ( Skt. karsha, 

 Tarn, kasu, Singalese kasi, Portuguese caixa) — "a name 

 applied to sundry coins of low value in several parts of 

 India/' In 1598 Linschoten found copper caixa current 

 in Sunda; and in IT 27 Hamilton found leaden money 

 called Cash current at Acheen. But the use of the word 

 kasi i to give ' would seem to be of much later date, or 

 probably it would have been accepted in literature. 



B. A. Soc, No. 80, 1919. 



