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piyamm "father," b sen an " elder brother"* malanuwan 

 "younger brother," putanuwan "son" (msBiiiyan "mother" 

 doniyan " daughter." The cerebral is constant in inscrip- 

 tions. The derivation of these suffixes presents great 

 difficulties. They are all three in the plural (n originally 

 termination of the Genitive, then for the Accusative, is also 

 often used for the Nominative), and as regards nan, I for- 

 merly thought, it might be taken as a double plural, the 

 cerebral n perhaps arising from the frequent application 

 with some words in which, from phonetic reasons, n of the 

 Genitive plural, had to become n, but that is not satisfac- 

 tory. Nuwan and niyan evidently are intended to express 

 the masculine and the feminine gender respectively by the 

 terminations u and i ; but what then is nu ? 



2) Tuman = at man "own, his, etc." 



3) Naemlrt\ is an instrumental from nama, nam " name'' 

 = Skt. namna, Pali Prakrt namena. 



4) D't lege di "having given," Skt. dattva, Pali detva — - 

 the Sinhalese is curtailed from an old form in ya (see above.) 



5) Kot from krtva — kotu, kot, kotae, kota " having 

 made" — is here, as often, used as a sort of conjunction : 

 "after" (Comp. III. 18.) 



6) Karana lad, past participle of the passive, from kara- 

 naw&, etym. Karanain labdha "which has been made." 



7) Ndl is a woman's name I have also met with in the 

 second part of the Mahavamso, (ch. 50.) 



8) Aram = arama. 



9) Meheniwarki, see A 8. 



10) Tuhuwat, tuhu = sthapita, Pali thapita, wat (Skt. 

 vastu?) "An affix implying possession" (Clough Dict.) ? 



* Baeyan should not be confounded with baena " nephew = bhagi- 

 neya. 



| Naemin in the Report is an error of the press. 



