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OS THE ORIGIN OF 



ent Sinhalese words, derived from different radicals, which bear 

 the closest affinity to the Sanskrit or Pali. 

 I Shall tabularize them as follows: — 





Pali 



Sinhalese. 



Tamil. 



Ground 



bhutni 



bima 



nil am 



Ox 



gava 



gon 



mae?u 



Goat 



aja 



j elu 



adu 



Monkey 



va-nara 



j van dura 

 \rila 



kurangu 



Day 



da 



da 



pakal 



Eye 



achchi 



eesa 



kan 



Nose 



nasa 



nasa 



mukku 



Hand 



hattha 



ata 



kai 



iii. As the Dravidian dialects adopt a class of derivative words, 

 which in the Sanskrit family may be treated as primitives, 80 

 likewise where the latter class of languages, especially the Sinhalese, 

 adopt different appropriate masculine and feminine names, the 

 former simply alter the masculine into the feminine by inflexion; 

 e.g. 





Pali. 



Sinhalese. 



l^amil 



Man 



manussa 



minis 



maniden 



Wo-man 



itthi 



( itiri 

 ( gaenl 



manidi 



Son 



putta 



puta 



makan 



Daughter 



dhitu 



du 



makal 



King 



raja 



raja 



rasa 



Queen 



rajani 



biso 



rasatf 



He 



60 



ohu 



avan 



She 



si 



S3 



aval 



iv. No one conversant with the Tamil can fail to have observed 

 the successive formative and inflexional particles and pronominal 

 fragments which are added to a Dravidian monosyllabic root; as 

 per-ugugiradu 1 it increases ' from per. This expansion is not found 

 in the Sinhalese, which hardly takes a termination of more than two 



