The Veddas / by C.G. Seligmann and Brenda Z. Seligmann ; with a chapter by C.S. Myers ; and an appendix by A. Mendis Gunasekara.
- Charles Gabriel Seligman
- Date:
- 1911
Licence: In copyright
Credit: The Veddas / by C.G. Seligmann and Brenda Z. Seligmann ; with a chapter by C.S. Myers ; and an appendix by A. Mendis Gunasekara. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![arim cannot refer to bambcira, for these never build their comb in holes, and when they build in trees their comb is always hung under a branch.] (ii) stingless bee (Trigona sp.), poti Bl., perhaps akin to S. poetawa or Sk. pota, a young one (S. pilawa). A bee’s nest is called mehi keligama, “bee village” or “bee house,” the nest of the bambara is sometimes called maha mehi keligama. 18. Belly, bada K. (S. bada). 19. Betel, nilikola W. ; pangirikola, pengirikola, W. K. O. U. D. Bl. L. R. T. (S. bulaf). Nilikola, lit. “ dark green ” or “ dark-coloured leaves,” from S. kola, leaves, and nil, this word being commonly used in Sinhalese for all dark (not black) colours including the darker tints of blue (cf. Chap, xvr, p. 400). Pangirikola from pangiri (S. paehgiri), acid, having zest, and kola. FI. and Tl. pangirikola. 2°. Big, apade kote K. ; kudaminete W. ; malia D. ; mamakeke Bl.; metarati B. (S. maha, loku). Apade kote from apade, vast, huge (M. aphdte), and kola, heap, mass (S. goda). Kudaminete from kuda (Sk. khanda), a multitude, or Sk. ganda, mass (S. goda), and minete, measuring or measurement (S. minita). Malia from ma, big (S. md, maha), and alia, elephant (S. aliya). Cf. S. maha ali (adj.), very large. Mamakeke from mama, very big, and akeke, one. Metarati, a contraction of mevitaraeii, from S. me, this, vitar, size, and aeti, will be. 21. Bird, cappi D. Bl.; kurula T.; sakeleo O.; sappi, sappia, sappeo, N. W. G. K. L. R. (S. kurulla). (i) Hawk, capi D. ; mail G. ; velina N. W. O. (S. ukussa). Mailj Mr Parker suggests that this word may perhaps be derived from T. mayilei, grey or ash colour. Velina, lit. “ the crooked-nosed one ” from S. weli, crooked, and na, nose ; cf. Sk. vakrandsikd, owl, from vakra, crooked. (ii) Owl, bakumuna, bakuna G.; kakutua?ig kaneka O.; velina N. (S. bakamuna).](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b24851474_0597.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
