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ON THE ORIGIN OF 





Pali. 



Sinhalese. 



Tamil. 



Know 



J na 



dana 



ari 





Walk 



ahin^a 



aavida 



nada 



Plough 



ka-sa 



ha 



ulu 



See 



( disa 



( dakkhati 



daka 



kan 



ICeep 



\ 2hapa 



taba 



vai 



Make 



sada 



sada 



J panna 

 { akku 



Bind 



badha 



banda 



kaJfri 



Bite 



dasa 



vika 



kae?i 



Write 



likha 



Kya 



eladu 



Turn 



parivatta 



perala 



tiru-pu 



Fill 



pura 



purava 



nirappu 



Nearly every Sinhalese word is in the above list of thirty verbs 

 allied to the Pali or the Sanskrit; and there are only two secondary 

 forms, as in the names, which have some resemblance to the Tamil. 

 They are pala i go and vara ' come.'. Now, pala is not used in 

 any of the variations of the verb, except in the second person 

 imperative; and does not, like all other verbs, come from any radi- 

 cal which denotes motion, or from which the other moods and; 

 tenses are formed. The radical for 4 go ' in the Sinhalese is ya, 

 from which we obtain yami 'I go;' giyemi 1 1 went;' yannemi ' I 

 shall go/ etc., with slight modifications in the other persons. So, 

 likewise va-ra ' come thou ' is a form for the second person. It 

 does not come from the root e, which alone enters into all the 

 variations of tense and person, as emi i I come/ a(v)emi 'I came/' 

 e nnemi e I shall come.' The regular imperative forms o£ ya and e 

 are also the following: — yan, yanne 4 go thou/ en., enne 'come 

 thou/ yavu e go ye/ evu i come ye/ 



Whence theu do we get these stray forms of pala and vara 

 which we use to persons who are addressed with the offensive pro- 

 noun to ? Pala is nearer the Pali paleti ' he goes ' than the Tamil 



