Talk:Names of Sri Lanka

TOO MANY LINKS! I'm going crazy
Every other word links to an article... SAILOR? HE? 3+ links to Ptolemy? C'mon.
 * I fixed some, but there's probably more that could be done.--King Mir 17:48, 22 January 2007 (UTC)

Greek

 * Simoundou or Simundu (pronounced Silundu),

How does Simoundou end pronounced "Silundu" in Greek? --84.20.17.84 08:56, 30 May 2007 (UTC)
 * In the source, Malte-Brun says Simoundou/Simundu should probably be read Silundu, which, I would assume, means that he believes Simoundou to be a misspelling for Silundu. The ancient Greeks put less value on consistent spelling than people from eras of widespread access to dictionaries.--Kineticman (talk) 16:19, 11 January 2008 (UTC)
 * Still, mistaking /l/ for /m/ goes beyond informality. —Tamfang (talk) 02:00, 30 April 2023 (UTC)

Wonderful article
I feel such serendipity just reading of all the names. Bluefox79830 (talk) 21:31, 16 January 2015 (UTC)

Derivation from Sinhala vs. derivation from Cherala
The article as it is now has a single section for names derived from Sinhaladwipa and Ceralamdivu (or cognates thereof), which seems to claim that the former derives from (and/or is a cognate of) the latter. As far as I know, Sinhala and Chera/Kerala have different unrelated origins. If that is correct, we should divide the section into separate sections for names originating from the former and the latter (and perhaps another for names which, as far as it is known, could have originated from either). (Actually, there's already a section for Sinhala, so we could just move the Sinhala stuff there, and leave the Cherala stuff in the other section.) And, of course, if - which I find unlikely, but can accept - the two names are, in fact, related, we should clarify it more precisely (and give some actual decent source for the relation). Any further opinions? --85.141.135.55 (talk) 05:18, 29 July 2015 (UTC)

The topic is poisoned because the two ethnic groups treat the question of etymology as a battlefield. The article needs to take extra care to only cite serious philological publications as reliable sources, and treat political stuff as political. --dab (𒁳) 12:33, 8 March 2016 (UTC)

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ouch
The section "Serendip" needs untangling by someone with more expertise than I have and more command of English than whoever wrote it. For one thing, I am very reluctant to believe that Sielen is either Greek or Latin. —Tamfang (talk) 05:12, 29 March 2023 (UTC)

Lakdiva vs Lakdiva

 * Lak-diva in E'lu (old Sinhala) means the island of Lanka. Another traditional Sinhala name for Sri Lanka was Lakdiva, with diva also meaning "island".

Another? Did old Sinhala use hyphens? Am I missing something? —Tamfang (talk) 02:01, 30 April 2023 (UTC)