Sinhalese yuga (66)

     According to Clough’s Sinhala English Dictionary, Sinhalese word yuga means “pair, couple, brace; yoke; age of the world, as the Kaitṛ, Trétá, Dwápara, and Kali.” It traces its origin to the Tamil root okka through the transformation of okka > yugá > yuga. The following words, related to Sinhalese yuga, also originate from Tamil okka.

yukta and yuktá, “right, fit, proper; joined, combined, united, identified; possessing, endowed with, as virtues, qualities.” yukti, yuktiya, “propriety, fitness; union, connection, joining; usage, custom; civil right, complaint in law; inference, supplying an ellipsis.” yugma, “pair, brace, couple; mixing, uniting; couple of verses.” yugma-patra, “tree, Alstonia scholaris.” yugya, “any vehicle or conveyance; any animal yoked.” yugata-gini, “fire by which the world is destroyed at the end of a Yuga.” yugandara, “pole of a carriage or the wood to which the yoke is fixed; first or innermost of the seven circular ranges of rocks said to surround Maha Méru, and to form the boundaries to so many circumambient waters or oceans.” yuga-pat, “mountain ebony, Bauhinia purpurea.” yuga-patraka, “mountain ebony, Bauhinia purpurea or variegata; tree, Alstonia scholaris.” yugamátra-darṣnaya, “an ordinance of the Buddhist priesthood, enjoins it upon the priests not to look beyond the length of a yoke when travelling or in public.” yugayótra, “rope that ties the yoke to the bullock.” yugala, “pair, couple, brace.” yuga-sawan, “the two ears.” yugánta, “destruction of the universe; end of an age.” yugánta-maruta and yuganta-wátaya, “hurricane by which the universe is destroyed at the end of a yuga or age.” yuj, “pair, couple, brace; joiner, one who joins or unites.” yut, “endowed with, possessed of.” yuta, “multitude; measure of four cubits; joined, united, connected, combined.” yutu, “proper, fit, suitable, becoming, just.” ayukta, “injustice, injury; improper; sometimes written ayutta.” ayuktiya, “injustice, illegality.” ayutu, “improper, unjust.” ayutukama, “impropriety, injustice.” ayogya, “improper, unfit, unsuitable.” yùti, “joining, mixing.” viya, “yoke.” viyagaha, “yoke, yoke for oxen.” viyagon, “yoke or couple of oxen.” viya-daṇḍa, “yoke, yoke of a plough or bullock cart.” viyabána, “rope that fastens the oxen to the yoke.” viya-lanuwa, “the rope that fastens the oxen to the yoke.” viyasiduru, “aperture in the yoke through which the rope passes that fastens the oxen.” viyukta, “separated, sundered.” viyó and viyóga, “absence, separation, especially of lovers; grief arising from the loss of a lover; disunion disjunction.” viyója, “separation, disunion, disjunction.” viyójita, “separated.” viyóduka, “sorrow of separation, but especially the distress of absent lovers.” viyówa, “separation.” yodanawá, “to make, to concert, to construct, to form; to combine, to unite.” yóga, “junction, joining, union; combination, association, meeting, conflux; religious and abstract meditation.” yógakkhéma and yógakshéma, “Nirwáṇa, state of final emancipation obtained by devout and abstract meditation; charge of property for another; insurance or charge for secure conveyance of goods and the profit on their sale; national prosperity.” yógawán, “devotee, ascetic practicing devout meditation; rock moss.” yógawáhi, “alkali, quicksilver; menstruum or medium for mixing medicines.” yógáwachara, “one who abandons worldly pursuits for the purpose of giving up his mind to religious and abstract meditation.” yógí, “devotee, ascetic in general; religious or devout man who performs worldly actions and ceremonies without regard to their results, and keeps his mind fixed on Brahma alone; the performer of Yóga.” yójana, “in the Hindu mythology, God, the soul of the world; a measure of distance equal to four gaws or fifteen miles; union, joining; some computations make the Yójana thirteen or nine miles, others make it but about five miles.” yójana-parṇṇi and yójana-walli, “Indian madder, Rubia manjith or Hedyotis umbellata.” yójaníya, “to be united, added or applied.” yójita, “mixed, joined.” yótra, “tie that fastens the yoke of a plough to the neck of the ox.” yota, “cord, line, rope, long fishing line, from yótra.” niyukta, “engaged in, attached to; authorized, called, appointed.” niyuktiya, “authority.” niyóga, “order, command, appointment, authority.” niyógakaraṇawá, “to appoint, ordain, command.” niyójana, “to join order, command, appointment.” piyó, “effort, exertion; dissimulation, deceit, cunning, trick; application, employment, usage, construction.” sapiyó, “union, association, conjunction; war, conflict, contest, battle.” siyo, “union, junction, association; relation, kindred.”