Maho/Mahawa (SL)

Sin: මහව mahava – Tam: மாகோ mākō ‘Great Lake’  NWP,  Sri Lanka From: Sin: maha, ‘large, great’; and wewa, ‘lake, pond, large tank’. Maho is a British corruption of Mahawa which in turn is a truncated form of Mahawewa; there is a sister Mahawewa in Puttalam...