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accent adjective Adverbs alternative forms AmāV archaic ätini auxiliary vowel become bhūta Bl s.v. BLOCH Brahmi caus cause Ceylon colloquial Sinhalese Conditional Mood consonant contracted correspond to Pk Decl declension derived DhpAGp dialects elephant EpZ III Examples formation frequently gasanu Gerund inflected inflexion inscriptions Instr karanu kāśm kerehi LANEROLLE loanwords long vowel look masc meaning mediaeval inscrs mediaeval period MIAVs Middle-Indian MInd modern language MORPHOLOGY muta muva nasal neutr numeral occurs older Optative Mood oṛ origin Pali person phonological PISCHEL piyanu plural pprs pprt Prakrit preterite pron pronoun pronunciation Proto-Sinhalese Rodiyas SdhRv Sinh SINHALESE GRAMMAR Sinhalese language spelling Stems ending substantive suffix syllable Tense tree trsl Types UmgJ umlaut Väddās verbs of conj visin vowel words yanu