Sinhalese ni (positive) (43)
Sinhalese words related to the prefix ni (positive) are taken from Clough’s Sinhala English Dictionary. It traces its origin to the Tamil root il (locative) through the transformation of il (locative) > nὶ > ni. The words with the prefix ni (positive) are condensed, and approximately 50 to 60 words are given below for reference. The following words, related to the prefix ni (positive), also originate from Tamil il (locative).
nikara, “flock, multitude; large quantity, abundance.” niká, “house; multitude, quantity, heap.” nikáya, “multitude, congregation, assemblage of persons performing like duties; flock; house, habitation.” nichaya, “heap, assembly, collection.” nichita, “full, complete; collected.” nidan and nidana, “mine, hidden treasure; treasury, depository for riches; beggar, mendicant; poverty, penury.” nidigdha, “smeared, anointed, daubed with unguents, plastered.” nidishṭa, “directed, pointed out; advised.” ninada, “sound in general.” nipad and nipada, “birth, production, bringing forth.” nipadawanawá, “to produce, to cause to be born, to cavise to bring forth.” nibaṉda, “always, continually, unceasingly, endlessly.” nibandha and nibandhana, “constipation; attachment to; binding; grant of property; commentary.” nimagna, “plunged in, immersed.” nimajjana, “bathing, immersion.” nimίlana, “twinkling of an eye, winking, blinking.” nimίlanaya, “twinkling of an eye, closing of the eye.” nimίlita, “closed, twinkled.” nimujjana, “sinking.” nimésha, “twinkling of the eye.” niyama, “appointment, fixing, settlement: ordinance, religious observance, as fasting, watching, pilgrimage.” niyukta, “engaged in, attached to; authorized, called, appointed.” niyóga, “order, command, appointment, authority.” nirdéṣa, “order, command, description, depicting, pointing out, exhibiting.” nirmmukta, “snake that has lately cast his skin: liberated, loosed, freed.” niruddha, “destroyed, stopped, restrained.” niwása, “house, habitation; dwelling, residence, place of staying or abiding, abode.” nivishṭa, “entered, placed in or upon.” niwéṣanaya, “house, dwelling, habitation.” nivṛita, “veil, mantle, wrapper; surrounded, encompassed, encircled, enclosed; concealed, hidden.” niṣṣwása, “breath, breath expired.” nishkramaṇaya, “for going out, exit, departure; degradation, baseness.” nishpanna, “born, produced; done, finished, ended, concluded, completed; happened.” nishaṇṇa, “rested, reclined; seated, placed in or on.” nistaraṇaya, “going out, departure; crossing over, passing over; means of success, an expedient.” nisanga, “union, meeting, association.” nisarga, “natural state, peculiar character or condition; form, abandonment.” nisita, “sharpened, whetted.” nihata, “slain, killed, destroyed.”