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Japanese "Kado-wasu" and Sinhala "kandha-vanava"

Q17 You mentioned on your book that Sinhala word "kandha-vanava" is resemble Japanese "kado-wasu". Can you show me the reason in detail ?

I wrote about the Sinhala words <kandha-vanava> on "My memories of tropical language" .
It was tytled "Our brides lost their way " ( p. 245 / My ). Really it was the scandal.ous report between Japan and Sri Lanka.
Japanese verb kadowa--kasu kadowa-ka-su ( archaic style kadova--su kado-wa-su ) is corresoponding to Sinhala word カンダ-ワ-ナワ It calls. It invites.kan:dha-va-nava:.

　　　　　　　　　　　　ka 　do- va-su
　　　　　　　　　　　　ka ndha-va-nava:

　The meaning of Sinhala "Kandha-va-nava:" is "uttering and calling somebody", and it also means "inviting" .When it change to kandhava---gena---enava as one word , it change the meaning to " invited and take somewhere accompanied with somebody ". This word appear at the last part of the article of Divaina on 11th Nov 1998..
When you read that article , you can find out another "archaic Japanese words " on the papper.
For example , there are "namuth" ---"naredo" in Japanese -- and the conjugation word "mu" --- it indicate intention of a speaker.There is same conjugation "mu" in Japanese.