I
IDANGE OR IDAMA: The principal building where visitors of rank are lodged in a village.
IDINNA: Called also Usna. A smith’s forge.
ILLATTATTUWA: A betel-tray. The penuma given by a tenant engaged in carpentry or by a carver in wood.
ILMASA: The eighth month of the Sinhalese year (Nov. Dec.)
IRATTUWA: A word of Tamil extraction and applied to a kind of native cloth originally made by the Mahabadde people and at present by the tom-tom beater caste.
IRILENSUWA: A striped handkerchief given as a penuma by tenants of the tom-tom beater caste.
ISSARA: The individual share or strip of land in a range of fields cultivated by the shareholders in common.
ITIPANDAMA: A wax candle.
ITIWADALA: A lump of wax. In the honey-producing jungle districts as Nuwarakalawiya, Matale North etc., honey and itiwadal are dues to which a proprietor is entitled.