APPENDIX 



APPENDIX IV 



VERNACULAR TERMS FOR BIRDS, BEASTS, 

 CAMP FURNITURE, &c. 



IF a visitor wishes to be able to converse a little, or make himself 

 understood, he must go in for a proper handbook on the language, 

 Tamil or Singhalese, whichever is most used in the district he wishes 

 to visit ; but, as vocabularies do not as a rule contain all one wants, 

 I have thought it advisable to include the following lists of native 

 names of animals, birds, and all ordinary camp equipments. 



The spelling I have endeavoured to make as phonetical as our 

 miserable alphabet will permit, because tonal or "accent" marks 

 and instructions for using them are usually disregarded by the 

 ordinary casual reader. Hyphens are introduced merely to divide 

 syllables, and thus aid pronunciation. 



Elephant (general term) 



(female) 



(male tusker) 

 (female tusker) 



(rogue) 

 buffalo (bull 

 general term) 



Wild 



Wildbuffalo(femae) 



Village buffaloes 

 Elk (buck) 



Singhalese 



al-eeyah 

 al-eedenna 

 ettah 

 ettinnee 

 horrah al-eeyah 

 or wal meewah 



wal mee-harrak 

 wal harrak 

 kooloo meewah 

 kooloo mee-harrak 

 kooloo harrak 

 wal mee-dennah 

 kooloo mee-dennah 

 wal ella-denna 

 kooloo ella-denna 



gam mee-harrak, &c. 

 gohnah (plur. gohnoo) 



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Tamil 



ahney 



pon-ahney 



kombahney 



pon-kombahney 



pollahtha tannee ahney 



kahtoo mahdoo 



kahtoo erroomey 

 kooloo mahdoo 

 kooloo erroomey 

 kiddah 



kahtoo pon-mahdoo 

 kahtoo passoo mahdoo 

 kooloo pon-mahdoo 

 passoo-mahdoo 

 or "errumey" in- 

 stead of " mahdoo" 

 nahdoo - mahdoo, er- 



rumey, &c. 



marrey, ahn-marrey, or 

 komboo-marrey, or 

 kalley 



