Talk:List of Sinhala words of English origin
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Good list
[edit]We need to find the appropriate references such as the dictionary listings to validate these entries.RaveenS 23:13, 16 July 2006 (UTC)
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[edit]Give reasons why this is an encylopedia artile not just a list of words. Describe how Sinhalese came about these words, there effect etc.RaveenS 13:51, 31 July 2006 (UTC)
Some of these words are from other languages
[edit]I list them here because they might be added back by some other people.
- birōva Bureau Bureau
- From Dutch. This is evident from the [i]< Dutch [y]
- bōlaya Ball Ball
- looks very Portuguese to me
- departamentuva Department Department
- should also be Portuguese because of the dental [t], the [a] before the [m] and the ending in [u]
- distrikkaya District District
- Either Portuguese or Dutch because of dental [t]. If it were from English, it would be disʈrikkaya. I think it is Dutch because in Portuguese, there is no <c> as of now (although there was 500 years ago.)
- komisama Comission Comission
- Also Portuguese, because of the -m, derived from -ão
- kompāsuva Compass Compass
- Portuguese because of the [u]
- kōcciya Train Coach
- might rather be from Portuguese coche
- läyistuva List List
- Is clearly from Dutch lijst
- petsama Petition Petition
- Is probably Portuguese because of the dropped vowel and the ending in a nasal