THE SINHALESE LANGUAGE. 



23 



Camel 

 Bird 

 UP 

 Near 



Down 

 Before 

 Far 

 Behind 



Who 



What 

 Why 

 And or with saha 



Pali. 

 o#ha 



pakkhi 



uddhan 



{ samipa 

 1 lagga 



hettha 

 puralo 

 dura 

 paccha 

 fko 



(katara 

 kim 

 kasma 



But 



If 



Yes 



No 



Alas 



kintu 



yadi 



ama 



na-no 



aho 



Sinhalese 

 ota 



[ paksi 

 | kurulu 



uda 



( samipa 

 < langa 

 { kittu 



yaifa 



pera^u 



dura 



pasu 



{ kavuda 

 \ kavuru 



( kim 

 ( mokada 



eeyi 



\ saha 

 ( tavada 



{ yali 

 | ehet 



( nam 

 \idin 



ovu 



na-ne 



aho! 



Tamil, 

 otfak&m 



kurivi 

 mele 



ki^a 



kllei 

 munnei 

 tura 

 pinnei 



ar 



enna 

 en 



urn-affix, 

 anal 



al-affix 



on, ama 



illei 



ah! 



Here are sixty four words,— not remote from ordinary use, but 

 expressive of the common wants of man, both in a savage and a 

 civilized state. On examining the Pali words, it will be noticed, 

 there is scarcely a single word which does not claim relationship 

 with the Sanskrit. If we examine the above Pali words with their 

 equivalents in the Sinhalese, especially as we find them in the books, 

 we shall find the latter, with one exception, to be allied to the 

 former. That exception is kotalu, ' ass/ But this is clearly a 

 native word not derived from the Tamil, for the simple reason that 

 in our modern usage we have kalndceva, which is from a Tamil 



