Common words between hindi and sinhalese
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Similarities between Sinhala and Hindi
Ruchira Jayasinghe
Sinhala shares much with other Indo-Aryan languages such as Hindi. This includes vocabulary and grammar.
Examples:
Verbs in their infinitive form.
Note that the ending "vaa" in Sinhala infinitives can be removed wihout any change to the meaning.
This has been done below with some of the infinitives to highlight the similarities between the Hindi form and the Sinhala form. Note that these are two language separated by thousands of kilometres and a huge belt of Dravidian languages.
"to do"
Hindi (H) - karnaa
Sinhala (S) - karanaa
"to kill"
H - maarnaa
S - maranaa
"to see"
H - dekhnaa
S - dakinaa
"to eat"
H - khanaa
S - kanavaa
"to bathe"
H - nahaanaa
S - naanavaa
"to come"
H - aanaa
S - enaa
"to go"
H - jaanaa
S - yanaa
"to sing"
H - gaanaa
S - gayanaa
"to give"
H - denaa
S - denavaa
"to count"
H - ginnaa
S - ganinaa
"to know"
H - jaannaa
S - dannavaa
"to insult/scorn"
H - nindaa karnaa
S - nindaa karanaa
"to hear"
H - sunnaa
S - asanaa
even some of the irregular verbs are strangely similar
"to go" and "went"
H - jaanaa, gayaa
S - yanavaa, giyaa