What is the etymology of Sinhala word සෙල්ලම 'play'/'amusement'?

What I'm gonna write next might interest Telugu-Kannada bilingual speakers or grammar enthusiasts. You know Morasu Telugu has a peculiar way of negating a verb, we take the verb & add ledu (లేదు) to it. Standard Kannada follows the same too, verb + illa (ఇల్ల)

is it possible to further analyse *aḷamb̥̬⁽ᵘ⁾ into a compound forming from *aḷ-a 'sharp' (DEDr 293) + *amb̥̬⁽ᵘ⁾ 'arrow(head)' (DEDr 178)? or is it stretching it too much? note: I'm using [b̥̬] to mean it's either voiced or voiceless, some people use [P] but whatever.

Has anyone tested this use-case for #GPT4o image generation to its limits? I'm picking papers that don't come with a lot of illustrations or are very abstract/complicated to test this, but can't verify the accuracy of generated illustrations myself so try it urself & share rstls

It seems like AlphaTensor started off (2022) this trend of finding efficient matrix multiplication methods and from that point on it's like people are searching for better matrix multiplication algo, it's like you're mining to find the gem that makes your mining tool even sharper

If someone has access to doi.org/10.1093/logcom…, please dm

Hi. [ɐ.ʈɐk] 'hindrance' ← *ɐʈː⁽ʰ⁾ɐkː ← *ɐ̄̆ʈ̬ːɐŋkə(?) (→ {Te. aɖːɐŋkV, Tu. āʈɐŋkɯ, Ka. āʈɐŋkɐ, etc.} 'hindrance') ← PDr. *ɐɖ̥ 'obstacle/stop' +ŋkːV(?)

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I used YouTube's dubbed audio feature for the first time today while watching a documentary originally made in Italian, and I'm pleasantly surprised how the Italian-like accent is preserved in English. The original voice of people was also almost transferred perfectly.