Sinhalese word Goviya Govi etc hava a Tamil/Dravidian Origin

Goyama (singular), Goyam (plural): Grain in general, harvest (Sinhala); Goyam-kappanawaa: To reap (Sinhala); Goyi-tæna: Cultivation (Sinhala); Goyiyaa, Goviyaa:(singular), Goyi (plural): Cultivator of the ground, husbandman (Sinhala); Goyigama: Caste of the cultivators or husbandmen (Sinhala)
Tamil root word word koy (verb) To pluck, cut, reap (Tamil,); Kuyam: Sickle; Kuvil: Reaping, cutting (Tamil ); Koyiloo, Koiloo: A small paddy field, harvest, reaping; Koyyelu: Harvest (Tulu,); Koy, Kuy: To cut, reap, pluck; Koyilu, Kuyilu: Cutting, reaping, plucking; Koyika: Man who cuts (Kannada,); Koyu: To cut, reap, pluck (Telugu ); Koyka: To cut, reap, pluck (Malayalam,); Koyl: Harvest, reaping (Kota ); Koy: To cut/ pluck/ reap/ harvest (Kodagu, Parji, Gadba, Gondi, Konda,); Goye: To reap; Goytre: To have the crop reaped (Maltese); Goi: Government owned area leased for cultivation and habitation; Goi-veri: Lessee of a Goi; Goi-bai: The part of produce (bai: rice) given to the government by the lessee of a Goi (Dhivehi/ Maldivian
See all these words orgnated from the root Tamil word Koi/Koy pluck reap.
So the highest Sinhalese caste has a Tamil root. Whaat an irony

Goyiyaa or Goviyaa (Goyi in plural) means a farmer or cultivator in Sinhala. Goyigama is the name of the agricultural caste that is the most dominant one in the traditional social hierarchy of the Sinhalese.
The terms of identity come from the word Goyama (Goyam in plural), which in Sinhala means harvest as well as paddy or grains in general.
The caste name Goyi-gama therefore literally means (the people of) The Harvesters’ Village or (the people of) The Village of Paddy/ Grains. Gama means village in Sinhala.
Also note the other usages in Sinhala such as Goyi-tæna (cultivation, literally meaning the harvesting place), Goyi-pala (the place for harvest), Goyi-bima (cultivation field, literally meaning the land for harvest) and Goyi-wasama (the occupation or tribe of cultivation, literally harvest).
The function of harvest or reaping grains is the basis for the said terms related to paddy cultivation, land ownership, tribe identity and the dominant caste name of the Sinhalese.
In a further usage development showing social significance gained by the agrarian term, Goyiyo in Sinhala is used in addressing a singular second person in friendly conversations.
Goy, which is the root word, is not of Indo-Aryan origin. But a meaningful verb cognate of Dravidian origin could be found in the word Koy, which in Tamil means to reap, pluck, cut etc. The Tamil noun form Kuvil means the act of reaping or cutting (Dravidian Etymological Dictionary 2119).
The term Koy in the sense of reaping or harvest has an array of cognates in several Dravidian languages: Malayalam, Tulu, Kannada, Kodagu, Telugu, Kota, Parji, Gadba, Gondi, Konda and Maltese, apart from Tamil (DED 2119).
The cognates Koyiloo in Tulu, meaning harvest as well as a small paddy field, Koyika in Kannada for the man who reaps and the verb form Goye in Maltese meaning to reap, are of particular comparison with the Sinhala term and its usages. A related term and usage are found in the Dhivehi language of the Maldives too.(See table)
However, the usage development that made Goyi as an important term of identity for the occupation of agriculture, land ownership and for the upper echelon of the traditional society, is special to Sinhala.
A term primarily related to collection of grains becoming the root for the term of identity of the cultivation caste in Sinhala probably suggests the origins of that caste identity coming from incipient farming than the hydraulic one developed later.
The Dravidian etymology of the term is significant in this context in understanding the origins of Sinhala society, the social section responsible for the development of agrarian civilisation and parallel development of languages in southern South Asia.
Of the original shades of the meaning for the word Koy, only one, i.e. to pluck as of plucking flowers etc., survives in the modern Tamil usage of today.
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Note the following examples from the Changkam Tamil literature for the usage of Koy as adjective and Koyal as noun meaning harvest:
Koy meaning reaping a cereal crop:
“Cheng koal kodung kural chi’ru thinai viyan pulam koy patham ku’rukung kaalai”(Natti’nai 57:9)

Now we can have lots of copy and paste garbage from Nalan/TamilSinhala/Truth Sano

Siva Sankaran wrote:

Goyama (singular), Goyam (plural): Grain in general, harvest (Sinhala); Goyam-kappanawaa: To reap (Sinhala); Goyi-tæna: Cultivation (Sinhala); Goyiyaa, Goviyaa:(singular), Goyi (plural): Cultivator of the ground, husbandman (Sinhala); Goyigama: Caste of the cultivators or husbandmen (Sinhala)
Tamil root word word koy (verb) To pluck, cut, reap (Tamil,); Kuyam: Sickle; Kuvil: Reaping, cutting (Tamil ); Koyiloo, Koiloo: A small paddy field, harvest, reaping; Koyyelu: Harvest (Tulu,); Koy, Kuy: To cut, reap, pluck; Koyilu, Kuyilu: Cutting, reaping, plucking; Koyika: Man who cuts (Kannada,); Koyu: To cut, reap, pluck (Telugu ); Koyka: To cut, reap, pluck (Malayalam,); Koyl: Harvest, reaping (Kota ); Koy: To cut/ pluck/ reap/ harvest (Kodagu, Parji, Gadba, Gondi, Konda,); Goye: To reap; Goytre: To have the crop reaped (Maltese); Goi: Government owned area leased for cultivation and habitation; Goi-veri: Lessee of a Goi; Goi-bai: The part of produce (bai: rice) given to the government by the lessee of a Goi (Dhivehi/ Maldivian
See all these words orgnated from the root Tamil word Koi/Koy pluck reap.
So the highest Sinhalese caste has a Tamil root. Whaat an irony

All those words come from Sanskrit, you self taught tamil charlatan. Tamil borrowed sanskrit words because Tamil is a foul sounding barabarous language akin to the noise of industrial machinery. LOL

Thor-Indra-Zeus wrote:

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All those words come from Sanskrit, you self taught tamil charlatan. Tamil borrowed sanskrit words because Tamil is a foul sounding barabarous language akin to the noise of industrial machinery. LOL

ROFL... killer wankering vesi was skull facked right-away. ROFL. pow vesi.

lets just say that these words do come from Tamil (for the moment), it matters not ne? because paka demalu are still homeless para killers. LOL

Siva Sankaran wrote:

Now we can have lots of copy and paste garbage from Nalan/TamilSinhala/Truth Sano

Mr.Thamizh sariththira pandithar.
'Gama' is a sanskrit derived word 'Grama' which means 'village'.
Gramam in malayalam/Tamil
Grama in hindi/kannada.
Tamils stole many words from sanskrit, like amma(mother).
'Amma' is a pure sanskrit word.

Rajan Antony wrote:

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Mr.Thamizh sariththira pandithar.
'Gama' is a sanskrit derived word 'Grama' which means 'village'.
Gramam in malayalam/Tamil
Grama in hindi/kannada.
Tamils stole many words from sanskrit, like amma(mother).
'Amma' is a pure sanskrit word.

Ha.. Ha.. Ha..
Tamils are pathological liars.

Thor-Indra-Zeus wrote:

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All those words come from Sanskrit, you self taught tamil charlatan. Tamil borrowed sanskrit words because Tamil is a foul sounding barabarous language akin to the noise of industrial machinery. LOL

Tamils are always lying.

Slimy Tamil liars say Sinhala words derived from Tamil, hiding the Pali and Sanskrit link.. Eg. Which is more likely Kamam (Tamil)=> Gama (Sinhala) or Gaama/Grama
(Pali)=> Gama (Sinhala)
Moolai (Tamil)=> Mulla (Sinhala) or Muula (Pali)=> Mulla (Sinhala)
Thurai (Tamil)=> Thota (Sinhala) or Thitta (Pali)=> Thota (Sinhala) Tamils bring in far fetched theories, avoiding the simpler Sinhala expalanation, Eg.‘Weli’ in Weligama => Weliyei (outside, Tamil), or Veli/Vali (sandy, Pali)
perhaps Tamils have not been to Veligama to see the soil properties of the
area.. There are also some mistranslations in the Tamil attempts to link Sinhala words
to Tamil as well, taking only the suffix Tamils forget the meaning of the rest of
the word (Tamils are not versed in Sinhala, so every Sinhala word looks Tamil
to them).. Eg. Deniya is given as derived from Thinai (soil or land) whereas, Deniya means
bush or forest (i.e. Dambadeniya – bush/forest of Kadamba/bur-flower trees) Kada is given as derived kadai (jungle or forest), whereas Kada means far-edge/
border (i.e. Kadawatha, literally means border post where the border of the
Kandyan Kingdom met that of Portuguese occupied Kotte)..Mankada is means,
bottleneck/pass/ checkpoint (i.e. Alimankada where the Dutch record the
Northern border of the Kandyan Kingdom to have laid).. With Kataragama Tamils say it is a corruption of Kathir, but by Tamils' own
admission it is a dry, hard place (Perhaps not knowing that the Sinhala Kathara,
from the Pali Kachara, means a dry plain) The Tamils' game is clearly revealed in the translation of fish Meenu =>
Maalu… Infact the word ‘Maalu’ actually denoted flesh (of any animal), terms
such as Uru Maalu (Swine flesh), Geri Maalu (Beef) is still used in
Sabaragamuwa and the deep South.. The word for fish was Masu (From the
Pali/ Sanskrit Matsya) and is still used in Divehi as Mas.. Tamils refrain from comparisons with the original Elu (proto-Sinhalese, the likely
language of the Native Yakkas) or even middle aged Sinhalese (Pali influenced
Sinhalese, Tamils are infact very cautious of the Pali connection).. All these farcical hypotheses are perhaps to indoctrinate Sinhalese of the
ultimate goal, 35% of land an 65% of coast for less than 10% of the population..
A uber-pure Tamil bantustan devoid of the unter-corrupted mixed Sinhalese (The
Chelvanayagam mindset?!).. that is NOT going to happen..

Rajan Antony wrote:

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Mr.Thamizh sariththira pandithar.
'Gama' is a sanskrit derived word 'Grama' which means 'village'.
Gramam in malayalam/Tamil
Grama in hindi/kannada.
Tamils stole many words from sanskrit, like amma(mother).
'Amma' is a pure sanskrit word.

Stupid Malayalee dog Sanskrit stole a lot of Tamil words too.Tamil only borrowed words from Sanksrit and that is no big deal .For every Sankskrit deived Tamil word there is a pure Tamil word. Tamil is the onlySouth Asian language that can exist without Sanskrit. HIgh Tamil has no Sanskrit or very little Sanskrit. No other Indian language can. Sanskrit not only stole many Tamil words but even stole the Tamil grammer lexicon and syntax.
Every word common to Saskrit and Tamil are not Sankskrit derived half of them are from Tamil. For your information Malayalee idiot 30% of the so called Vedic Sanksrit vocabulary is of Dravidiian /Munda origin. Understood you Syrian Christian Malayalee dog whose language is around 85% Tamil.
Kannada Telugu and other Dravidian languges are not daughter languages of Sankskrit but daughter lannguages of Tamil, this also includes your third rate Malyalam language that is basically a western Tamil dialect like Eelam Tamil.
This where the similarity between Eelam Tamil and modern Malayalm lies as they both orginated from the western Tamil dialect. Whereas the Tamil of Tamilnadu is from the eastern Tamil dialect. Modern Eelam Tamil however is a fusion of the western and eastern Tamil dialects due to the influence of Chola invasions. However still much closer to modern Malayalam than the Tamilnadu Tamil.
The word Kammam is basically derived from two origins. One is Tamil derived the other Sankskrit. Kammam means agricuture in Tamil so in old Tamil a village is where agriculture took place also was called kammam understood. The other is from the Sanskrit word Gramma from the Prakirt word gamma is derived. However in Tamil the Sanskrit derived word for village is Gramam and not Kammam the old Tamil word. Stop trying to spread false hood. A little knowledge is dangerous.
Any way IAm discussing the origin/the root of the Sinhalese word Govi Goviya it is purely derived from the ancient Tamil word Koi/Koy which means to reap/pluck or harvest. This word is stil used in yuor trash Malyalam and all other Dravdian languages to denote a farmer to reap or a farm. The Sinhalese caste system the hydraulic irrigation syetem and the Govis are al lshow an ancient Tamil/Dravidian origin.
You aare one of these narrow minded racist Malayalees who want ot deny their very recent Tamil origins. Suffering from a severe inferiority complex. So wil do anything to rundown the Tamil languge which is basically the mother to your third rate langauge and the Tamil people. Koi/koy kamma in old Tamil meant the village where the reapers/farmers lived which became Govigamma in Sinhalese. Stop trying to pretend otherwise. These are anceint words that were in usange long before the arrival of Sanskrit or Pali to the region.
Read this dog. Unlike the Indian Tamil you have nothing to with the Sri Lankan forum or its people,however you stilllhover around this forum and post under various identities your anti Tamil venom. Shows what an arsehole you are.
When did amma become a Sankskrit word Amma/Thai are pure Tamil word and the Sanskrit word for mother is Matha. Shows what morally bankrupt creature you are.

http://tamilnation.co/literature/sanskrit.htm

Fraudulent Sitsabaiesan wrote:

lets just say that these words do come from Tamil (for the moment), it matters not ne? because paka demalu are still homeless para killers. LOL

Because Tamil is your mother tongue and you know that they are Tamil derived and not a lie. The Malayalee idiot suffers from a complex. They do not like to admit that their language is a very recent offshoot of Chera Tamil basically a Tamil dialect with some Sanskrit words masquerading as a language, so they go out of the way to discredit Tamil and Tamils. How bankrupt and stupid to say that the pure Tamil word for mother Amma is Sanskrit shows how evil vicious and bankrupt his views are.

Siva Sankaran wrote:

<quoted text> Stupid Malayalee dog Sanskrit stole a lot of Tamil words too.Tamil only borrowed words from Sanksrit and that is no big deal .For every Sankskrit deived Tamil word there is a pure Tamil word. Tamil is the onlySouth Asian language that can exist without Sanskrit. HIgh Tamil has no Sanskrit or very little Sanskrit. No other Indian language can. Sanskrit not only stole many Tamil words but even stole the Tamil grammer lexicon and syntax.
Every word common to Saskrit and Tamil are not Sankskrit derived half of them are from Tamil. For your information Malayalee idiot 30% of the so called Vedic Sanksrit vocabulary is of Dravidiian /Munda origin. Understood you Syrian Christian Malayalee dog whose language is around 85% Tamil.

ROFL I knew wanker will wake up soon and start farting Tamule. LOL padaya, tamule is a shit language spoken by a tribe of killer, rapists, thieves, fraudsters and bombilly payyio. LOL

Issa wrote:

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ROFL I knew wanker will wake up soon and start farting Tamule. LOL padaya, tamule is a shit language spoken by a tribe of killer, rapists, thieves, fraudsters and bombilly payyio. LOL

Rally then why do you speak it dream in the same languge beg at Tamil shops for food and obtained assylum in Canda stating that you are Tamil. Yes Tamils is shit and the Thullukans, Sinhalese and Malyaless ae the shit of the Tamils. So you are shits shits.
Poro things nwo cannot stnd the fact that there precious Govigamm has a pre Tamil origin and thier hydraulic agrarian system is Dravidian/Tamil based.

Siva Sankaran wrote:

<quoted text>Rally then why do you speak it dream in the same languge beg at Tamil shops for food and obtained assylum in Canda stating that you are Tamil. Yes Tamils is shit and the Thullukans, Sinhalese and Malyaless ae the shit of the Tamils. So you are shits shits.
Poro things nwo cannot stnd the fact that there precious Govigamm has a pre Tamil origin and thier hydraulic agrarian system is Dravidian/Tamil based.

Tamil Charlatan, you are inventing history. the Singhalese Civilization was Singhalese-Aryan- period: the tanks, dagobas, Buddhas were akll Singhalese-Aryan.
tamil slaves were introduced as a settled community by the Dutch East India Company to work on their tobacco fields in Jaffna.

Siva Sankaran wrote:

<quoted text>Rally then why do you speak it dream in the same languge beg at Tamil shops for food and obtained assylum in Canda stating that you are Tamil. Yes Tamils is shit and the Thullukans, Sinhalese and Malyaless ae the shit of the Tamils. So you are shits shits.
Poro things nwo cannot stnd the fact that there precious Govigamm has a pre Tamil origin and thier hydraulic agrarian system is Dravidian/Tamil based.

Elephant Pass, WAS THE BORDER between Jaffna, stolen by the Portuguese from Sinhalese and the Sinhalese Kingdom of Kandy, in 16xx, according to the Dutch

Who is lying?
Tamils or the Dutch?

Here is an extract from a document in the Dutch National Archives that proves CONCLUSIVELY that Elephant Pass was the Border with the Dutch controlled Jaffna Peninsula and the Rest of the Island, Controlled by the Sinhalese.

As I see it, this Fraudulent Homeland Claim is the biggest obstacle to reconciliation

Extract
During the 17th century the Company was engaged in a war of attrition with the king of Kandy, who had close ties with Ceylon’s Buddhist population. There was a narrow tongue of land at Elephant Pass a fort was built to guard the border with the king’s territory .
End Extract
http://www.atlasofmutualheritage.nl/detail.as...

Thor-Indra-Zeus wrote:

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Tamil Charlatan, you are inventing history. the Singhalese Civilization was Singhalese-Aryan- period: the tanks, dagobas, Buddhas were akll Singhalese-Aryan.
tamil slaves were introduced as a settled community by the Dutch East India Company to work on their tobacco fields in Jaffna.

When you dig up so called Tamil history in the North and East you find the ruins of Sinhala civilisation beneath.
Even the world “eelam” is the corrupted Tamil/South Indian word for “Sinhale”/”Sinhala”. As that is the name given to this land for its inhabitants by its inhabitants. It is only in 2007 they realised this “mistake” and changed it to Eezham or something like that. For all this time they had been demanding a “Tamil eelam” they were calling for a “Tamil land of the Sinhalese”. Their whole “homeland” project was nothing more than theft and deceit engraved in the name itself. That said Tamil culture is built on theft and deceit and they have no problem with doing so if it means self-advancement.

Thor-Indra-Zeus wrote:

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Tamil Charlatan, you are inventing history. the Singhalese Civilization was Singhalese-Aryan- period: the tanks, dagobas, Buddhas were akll Singhalese-Aryan.
tamil slaves were introduced as a settled community by the Dutch East India Company to work on their tobacco fields in Jaffna.

The Sinhalese nor the Sinhalese hostory or civilisatin was never Aryan. Non of the old kings in the island ever called thems selves Sinhalese or Aryans as they were neither. They were largely Tamils. If the ruling elite were never Aryan how can the masses be. Idiot. Your history culture way of life and even the language is deeply Tamil/Dravidian.
Other than a small fraction of the Dutch impots settled in Jaffna who became part of the Jaffna Nalvars 99% of the Indian Tamil imports by the Portuguese and Dutch to the island became Sinhalese and aroudn 60% present day Sinhales are descended from these very recent Indian Tamil imports. This also inludes your so called aristocratic Kandyan Radala family.

Siva Sankaran Sarma wrote:

<quoted text>The Sinhalese nor the Sinhalese hostory or civilisatin was never Aryan. Non of the old kings in the island ever called thems selves Sinhalese or Aryans as they were neither. They were largely Tamils. If the ruling elite were never Aryan how can the masses be. Idiot. Your history culture way of life and even the language is deeply Tamil/Dravidian.
Other than a small fraction of the Dutch impots settled in Jaffna who became part of the Jaffna Nalvars 99% of the Indian Tamil imports by the Portuguese and Dutch to the island became Sinhalese and aroudn 60% present day Sinhales are descended from these very recent Indian Tamil imports. This also inludes your so called aristocratic Kandyan Radala family.

The extent of distorting the true history of Sri Lanka is such that perhaps the Eelimist themselves do not know the fact that the original inhabitants of Jaffna had been Sinhalese before a large scale Tamil settlement took place there when Portuguese , Dutch and English brought them for tobacco cultivation from South India.

100% of the estate Tamils came as hired workers, true, and over 95% of the other Tamils also came here in the same process. Rest were the illegal immigrants from Tamil Nadu, who invaded this country in the last part of the 19th and 20th centuries. There is no much difference between estate Tamils and other Tamils in Sri Lanka. They all came within a period of 400 years and over 90% came here withing a period of 200 years.

naIan wrote:

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The extent of distorting the true history of Sri Lanka is such that perhaps the Eelimist themselves do not know the fact that the original inhabitants of Jaffna had been Sinhalese before a large scale Tamil settlement took place there when Portuguese , Dutch and English brought them for tobacco cultivation from South India.
100% of the estate Tamils came as hired workers, true, and over 95% of the other Tamils also came here in the same process. Rest were the illegal immigrants from Tamil Nadu, who invaded this country in the last part of the 19th and 20th centuries. There is no much difference between estate Tamils and other Tamils in Sri Lanka. They all came within a period of 400 years and over 90% came here withing a period of 200 years.

The only creature distorting history is you with your often repeated copy and paste lies from Sinhalese extremsit sites. 99% of the Portuguese and Dutch imports from Tamil nadu to the island became Sinhalese. They are the Sinhalese Karawa Durawa,Salagmma Hunu Hali Berewa etc. making up arund 50% of thepresent day Sinhalese. May be your own ancestors.

naIan wrote:

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When you dig up so called Tamil history in the North and East you find the ruins of Sinhala civilisation beneath.
Even the world “eelam” is the corrupted Tamil/South Indian word for “Sinhale”/”Sinhala”. As that is the name given to this land for its inhabitants by its inhabitants. It is only in 2007 they realised this “mistake” and changed it to Eezham or something like that. For all this time they had been demanding a “Tamil eelam” they were calling for a “Tamil land of the Sinhalese”. Their whole “homeland” project was nothing more than theft and deceit engraved in the name itself. That said Tamil culture is built on theft and deceit and they have no problem with doing so if it means self-advancement.

of course we all know that.