අ, n. The first letter of the Alphabet. It varies bightly in pronunciation, depending sometimes on the meaning or derivation and sometimes on the consonants with which it is combined. It is (1) the clear, distinct sound obtained by shortening ආ ah; (2) the sound of a in negative or miracle. In initial syllables the sound is generally the first of these; the second arises from the dropping of the voice in the unaccented syllables. It is written only when it is the initial letter of a word, but is pronounced after every consonant to which no other vowel is attached, or where it is not suppressed by the sign ්, as කරනවා, karanavā, the final vowel අ, which is long, alone being written;කරන් karan, the vowel අ after න being suppressed by the sign ්.

අත්, n. pl. of අත fr. හස්ත: hands, arms. For other derivations and meanings, see අත.

අර්‍ථ නිරුක්තිය, n. explanation of the derivation and meaning, glossary: see අර්‍ථකථාව.

ඤ, n. The tenth consonant of the Sanskrit and Pali alphabets and nasal of the palatal or second class. It is often written by the shorter from [ං], as in ආරංචි, වංචා, by [`], චචා. In Sansorit and its derivatives it never stands as an initial or alone, but joined to the following consonant either in its full or shortened form, as වඤ්වා, වංචා, වචා.

තද්ධිතය, තඬිතය, n. derivative noun.

තද්භව, a. gram. derivative.

තද්භව·වචනය, n. derivative word.

නිරුක්තය, නිරුක්තිය, n. gram. explanation, etymology, derivation, ශබ්ද ධාතු විස්තරය; glossary, ගැටපදවිවරණය.

පද·භජනය, පද·භජය, n. resolution of compound words or of sentences, derivation, etymology.

පද·සිඬිය, n. word-formation, derivation, etymology.

පද්‍යේත්පත්තිය, n. (පද්‍ය උත්ප:), derivation of words, etymology.

ප්‍රකෘති·වශයෙන්, ad. according to original nature, primitively, derivatively, මුල් ස්වභාව ලෙස, ධාතුවේ හැටියට.

භින්න, a. split, පැළුණු, broken, බිඳුණු; derived, derivative, බිඳී ආ; divided, බෙදුණු, fractional, E. S.; different, වෙනස්වූ; budded, opened, ප්‍රබෝධවූ.

ව්‍යුත්පත්තිය, n. origin, derivation, etymology, උපත, පදසිද්ධිය; science, learning, ශාස්ත්‍රය, උගත්කම.

සමෝත්පන්න, a. (සම same, උත්පන්න), of the same derivation, paronyrnous.