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Selected source glosses provide context, not a complete modern definition inventorythe ancestral form of Sinhalese, the Sinhala language, a Middle Indo-Aryan Prakrit of the 3rd century BCE.
Borrowed from Sinhalese එළු (eḷu), හෙළු (heḷu), from Prakrit 𑀲𑀻𑀳𑀮 (sīhala) (compare Pali sīhala), from Sanskrit सिंहल (siṃhala, literally “lionlike”), from सिंह (siṃha, “lion”) + -ल (-la). Doublet of Ceylon and Sinhala.
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