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With a /ya/ added to words ending in /a/ or /e/ or /i/ (e.g. diamante > diyamantiya). With the animate ending /yā/ or /vā/ added to Portuguese words signifying living beings or (e.g. burro > būruvā). Adjectives that end in vowels are generally preserved in the original form. There are over 150 words in the following list.
Exception from the standard are the romanization of Sinhala long "ä" ([æː]) as "ää", and the non-marking of prenasalized stops. Sinhala words of English origin mainly came about during the period of British colonial rule in Sri Lanka. This period saw absorption of several English words into the local language brought about by the ...
[21] [22] The name for the letter අ is thus ayanna, for the letter ආ āyanna, for the letter ක kayanna, for the letter කා kāyanna, for the letter කෙ keyanna and so forth. For letters with hal kirīma, an epenthetic a is added for easier pronunciation: the name for the letter ක් is akyanna.
Pages in category "Lists of Sinhala words of foreign origin" The following 4 pages are in this category, out of 4 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. D.
Pages in category "Sinhalese masculine given names" The following 105 pages are in this category, out of 105 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A.
Tamil loanwords in Sinhala can appear in the same form as the original word (e.g. akkā), but this is quite rare.Usually, a word has undergone some kind of modification to fit into the Sinhala phonological (e.g. paḻi becomes paḷi(ya) because the sound of /ḻ/, [], does not exist in the Sinhala phoneme inventory) or morphological system (e.g. ilakkam becomes ilakkama because Sinhala ...
Pages in category "Sinhala words and phrases" This category contains only the following page. This list may not reflect recent changes. G. Geuda
Sinhala (Siṁhala) is a Sanskrit term; the corresponding Middle Indo-Aryan word is Sīhala. The name is a derivative of , the Sanskrit word for 'lion' सिंहः(sinhah). [12] The name is sometimes glossed as 'abode of lions', and attributed to a supposed former abundance of lions on the island. [13]