punā (9603)

punā
Entry 9603, Page 347, Col. 2

(punA, punA)
punā¦, for punar, again, or rather but, yet, prob. m.c. for MIndic puna: Gv 476.9 (vs: before ca). So also Pali Jāt. iii.437.26 punā atthi (vs, m.c.). The form occurs in Pkt., as uṇā or puṇā- (in comp.), where it seems not to be m.c. and is regarded by Pischel 342 end, 343 end, as abl. to the ‘stem’ (p)uṇa-; cf. under puni; or in the case of puṇā-perhaps due to lengthening in the seam of cpds., Pischel 70.