Talk:दूना

*duguṇa

@Svartava Does

6390 *duguṇa 'double'. [~ dviguṇá-. — *du-², guṇá-]

mean that *duguṇa should be considered as an alternative form of द्विगुण (dviguṇá) rather than reconstructed Ashokan Prakrit? Kutchkutch (talk) 12:10, 18 July 2024 (UTC)

@Kutchkutch: Maybe an alternative form only? I straight away wrote inherited from द्विगुण (dviguṇa) because I don't find it problematic and in some Prakrit words there can be seen similar i ~ u variation (and here we also have dv which can easily cause du). Svartava (talk) 12:22, 18 July 2024 (UTC)

@Svartava: dv → du does seem reasonable since that is how द्व (dva) became দুই (dui). Perhaps {{R:CDIAL}} had to use reconstruction so that the outcome of i in the compounding form द्वि (dvi) does not need to be explained.

If this dismissal of {{R:CDIAL}}’s reconstruction is retained (in favour of the attested Sanskrit term), it would not be the first instance. Kutchkutch (talk) 14:19, 18 July 2024 (UTC)