A study on how the vocabulary of the Sinhala language was nourished by the terms related to Corona epidemic

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.