NOTES ON ANCIENT SIMHALESE INSCRIPTIONS. 



27 



Here we have the origin of the modern future in hhl etc. 

 This was originally a present : karanem (for karanami)* 

 " I am doing," karanamo " we are doing" — n was doubled 

 probably by force of the accent, hence karannem (or karan- 

 nemi) — m being dropped in the first person sing., e affected 

 the preceding nasal and itself migrated into d ; or perhaps 

 more correctly e not being strong enough to hold against 

 the two preceding consonants, was changed into yd ; hence 

 we have in modern Sinhalese karanna (pron. kararmy&) 

 which is used as a future " I shall do" and karannemu " wo 

 shall do." 



27) Ek sewae. I am doubtful about the explanation of 

 this, but I suspect it to be the original form of the modern 

 seka " he condescended, was pleased to — , a which is used 

 with preceding participle (e. g. waddla seka, he was pleased 

 to declare.") In the 12th century we have seyekae which 

 is possibly an inversion of ek sewae ; however, this must still 

 remain uncertain. 



28) Waddleyin from waddla " having ordered" (past par- 

 ticiple of wadaranawa, tatsama == Pali avadhareti) and 

 heyiri) Skt. hetuna " because." 



29) Makd should be maha in. genuine Sinhalese. 



B. 



1 ) Laenan u writer, secretary." This is a compound form 

 of Ise + nan, Lj& is contracted from leva, ley ( === lekhaka 

 " writer"), as Saegiri from Seygiri = Caityagiri. M$eniyan 

 " mother" in the same way is to be divided into mj& + niyan, 

 m^ being contracted from *maya, *may = mata, as bm 

 (bsenan) frombatiya, baya (see IV, 2). Nan, nuwan, niyan 

 are used — the first as a suffix of respect, the two latter 

 indicating endearment ; thus we have rajanan " king," 



* Comp. karanem in the opening verses of the Sidatsafigarawa* 



