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Uppu 



Uttu 



Vedclai 



salt 



a spring 

 hunting 



Uppukidankuvan 



Uttukkulam 



Yeddai-adaippu 



IX.— Names with 

 Alampil 

 Ampamam 



Chalai 

 Chilavattai 



Ohiluppai 



Chiraddi 



Chittandi 



Chivanta 



Eru(potana) 



Kachchilai(madu) 



( Kaddu ) chinka ( paddi) . . . 



Kalakalappan(kulam) ... 



Kanuk(keni) 



Kayankapirayan(kulam) 



Kuravil 



Mallavi 



Manna(kandal) 

 Mayilera(kulam) 



MEANING UNKNOWN OR UNCERTAIN. 



Possibly connected with alam = a salt pan 

 Possibly a corruption of Ampakamam (Sin. 

 Ambagama = Mango village) 



" Chila " may mean a stone, but it has been 

 suggested that it may have something to 

 do with Salapam, pearl-fishing (cf. Chila- 

 vaturai in the Mannar District), as there 

 was a pearl fishery here in 1822, and there- 

 fore may have been others before that 

 date. The village was known by its 

 present name before 1822 



... Probably a proper name 



Meaning of " Eru " unknown 



According to the villagers this should be 

 Kaichchilaimadu, from Kai " hand," and 

 chilai l ° a bow," and thus means " pool 

 where the bow (dropped from) the hand " 



Meaning of " chinka " not known 



Meaning of " kanu " unknown 

 Meaning of " kura " unknown 



"Manna" is apparently a corruption, mean- 

 ing unknown 



A corruption. It may be from mayil, a 

 peacock, or from the proper name Mayilan, 

 or it may be the Sinhalese name retained 

 with a Tamil termination. Mayila is 

 the Sinhalese name for Bauhinia racemosa 

 (Tamil atti), and tanks called after it are 

 not uncommon in the North- Central 

 Province and elsewhere, e.g., Mayilagas- 

 wewa, and in the Kurunegala District 

 Mayilewa, which comes very near the name 

 under discussion 



* These hybrids are common in the North-Central and North- Western 

 Provinces. Sometimes the first part of the word is Tamil and the affix 

 Sinhalese, as, e.g., Vempuwewa instead of Kohambawewa, Tamarawewa 

 instead of Nelumbewewa ; sometimes it is the other way, as for instance 

 Halmillakulama, Kohambanknlama. 



