වතුර

Inherited from Sanskrit विस्तर (vistara, “spreading, diffuseness”). Not related to English water.

වතුර • (watura)

1. water

• ජලය (jalaya)

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• Geiger, Wilhelm (1897), “vatura”, in Etymologie des Singhalesischen (in German), Munich: Academy Press, section 1275, page 78
• Geiger, Wilhelm (1938), A Grammar of the Sinhalese Language, Colombo: Ceylon Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society, section 19.4, page 24
• Turner, Ralph Lilley (1969–1985), “viṣṭara”, in A Comparative Dictionary of the Indo-Aryan Languages, London: Oxford University Press, page 693