Vavuniya (SL)

Tam: வவுனியா vavuṉiyā, Sin: වවුනියාව vavuniyāva ‘End of the Forest’  NP,  Sri Lanka. From Sin: vanya/vana, ‘forest’; and nimawa, ‘end, boundary, limit’. Vavuniya sits on the edge of the Vanni, a forest which covers most of the Northern Province, creating a boundary...