Sri Lankan English

This page contains updates to the dictionary beginning with the letter Y. It is divided into 2 parts: New Entries, and Comments and Corrections. Click here to return to the main updates page, or on the links on the left side of the page to go to another letter.

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Latest update: July 2010. New additions are in red.

NEW ENTRIES:

yakkini: female devil (Sinhala)
“The yakkinis would lure mariners and merchants who came to the island to trade, …” (Theravada Man, by Manuka Wijesinghe, page 165)

younger to: younger than (> elder to)
"One, she is much younger to me, perhaps you would know her." (At the Water’s Edge, by Pradeep Jeganathan, page 113)
And Ravi was a year or so younger to me, … (Their Autopsy, by Vihanga Perera, page 129)

yuga: historical epoch (Sinhala)
“And the yuga in which we live, the Kali Yuga, is to be 432,000 years, …” (Theravada Man, by Manuka Wijesinghe, page 110)
“Kali Yuga has come, I tell you.” (The Moon in the Water, by Ameena Hussein, page 23)

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