Category:Sinhalese terms by etymology

Sinhalese terms categorized by their etymologies.

• Category:Sinhalese back-formations: Sinhalese terms formed by reversing a supposed regular formation, removing part of an older term.
• Category:Sinhalese blends: Sinhalese terms formed by combinations of other words.
• Category:Sinhalese borrowed terms: Sinhalese terms that are loanwords, i.e. terms that were directly incorporated from another language.
• Category:Sinhalese calques: Sinhalese calques, i.e. terms formed by piece-by-piece translations of terms from other languages.
• Category:Sinhalese compound terms: Sinhalese terms composed of two or more stems.
• Category:Sinhalese doublets: Sinhalese terms that trace their etymology from ultimately the same source as other terms in the same language, but by different routes, and often with subtly or substantially different meanings.
• Category:Sinhalese inherited terms: Sinhalese terms that were inherited from an earlier stage of the language.
• Category:Sinhalese terms by suffix: Sinhalese terms categorized by their suffixes.
• Category:Sinhalese terms derived from other languages: Sinhalese terms that originate from other languages.
• Category:Sinhalese terms with Indo-Aryan extensions: Sinhalese terms extended with particular Indo-Aryan pleonastic affixes.