398 APPENDIX TO THE THIRD EDITION 20 ff. (1972) where it is argued that it is in origin a middle Indo- Aryan descriptive epithet, (p. 380). On marica - in the Munda languages see now N. H, Zide, Current Trends in Linguistics , Vol, V, pp. 420-421. In the same paragraph he also queries the origin of the verb jim- from Munda, on the ground that the vowel is different in the Mun<Ja languages (Santali jom- t etc.), and further remarks that ■ the identification of words in Indo-Aryan and Dravidian as Mun<Ja loans, even when this has been done by careful scholars, is not often convincing, particularly in the light of newer data As regards sarsapa - ' mustard the Austro-Asiatic origin of this word has now been rendered doubtful by an article by W. B. Henning (Istituto Orientale di Napoli, Annali , Sezione Linguistica, VI, 29-47, x 9 & 5 )> where he treats of the Iranian words for ‘ mustard ' going back to an original *$in&apa-> and obviously related to the Sanskrit word. In view of this Malay se$awi> etc., should probably be regarded as loanwords from Indo-Aryan rather than vice-versa.
