Abstract:
The social and cultural events that took place in the country
in each era led to the development of the vocabulary of
the Sinhala language. In recent times, the major event
that has affected the development of Sinhala vocabulary
is the global epidemic situation called ‘Corona’. The lack
of vocabulary needed to identify the epidemic and its
concepts and describe the processes to control the spread of
the epidemic saw the creation of new terms in the Sinhala
language, the addition of words form other languages to
the Sinhala language and it can be seen how some words in
the Sinhala language were used more during the epidemic.
The research problem of this study is what words have been
added to the Sinhala language due to the corona epidemic
and how the vocabulary of the Sinhala language has been
nourished by the words added due to the Corona epidemic.
Collected data from magazines, newspapers, documents
and internet articles published on the Corona pandemic.
It is studied how words related to the corona epidemic
were combined with Sinhala language words and how
the Sinhala vocabulary was nourished. When asking how
words related to the corona epidemic have been added to
the Sinhala language according to the etymology of those
words, it was seen how the English equivalent of the root
words is used or not, how a Sinhala word related to the
root word is used or not. It can also how the words added
to the Sinhala language with the corona epidemic are used
as inflection and as synonyms.
