Should Thero, Thera and Himi after a Buddhist monk's name read as honorifics, as Rinpoche does? (Ellawala Medhananda Thero gives family 'Thero') #1246

A Sri Lankan Buddhist monk is named by his village, his monastic name and an honorific after it: Ellawala Medhananda Thero, Mapalagama Wipulasara Maha Thera, written එල්ලාවල මේධානන්ද හිමි in Sinhala and எல்லாவல மேதாநந்த தேரர் in Tamil, often with Ven. in front. The honorific is not in the vocabulary, so it reads as the family (measured on master ccaf6ad):

How often (2026-11-08): Wikidata's labels of Sri Lankan citizens end in Thero or Thera in 14 English labels, හිමි in 13 Sinhala labels (තෙරණුවෝ in 2 more) and தேரர் in 5 Tamil ones; 16 of ORCID's Sri Lankan records; 3 of the 657 past members of Parliament I read. tools/name_usage.py finds no bearer of thero and 13 Wikidata given names Thera (mostly Dutch); himi 1 family name.

Precedent: bo.toml lists rinpoche as a courtesy suffix (#346, decisions/indic-honorifics), and venerable stays a plain title because "Buddhist monastics drop the family name". In a lexicon of my own with thero, thera, හිමි, தேரர் and තෙරණුවෝ as courtesy suffixes, Ven. Ellawala Medhananda Thero reads given Ellawala, family Medhananda, suffix Thero: the honorific leaves the family, though the village name still reads as the given name and the monastic name as the family.

Questions

• List thero, thera and himi in si.toml (or pi.toml, Pali), and හිමි, තෙරණුවෝ, தேரர் in si.toml/ta.toml? thera has given-name bearers; is a trailing courtesy suffix gated the way S11 gates a generation word?
• Maha and Nayaka stand before Thera as part of the honorific (Maha Thera, Nayaka Thera, Anunayaka Thera). Should they come with it?
• Where do the village and the monastic name land? With no family name, given = monastic name and the village elsewhere would follow the convention, but no field holds "village"; leave it positional?