Talk:चाँपो

@AryamanA, Bhagadatta Do the descendants of inflected forms belong at the inflected form, at the lemma form or both? Kutchkutch (talk) 09:39, 7 September 2020 (UTC)Reply

@Kutchkutch: Personally I think they should be here unless it can be ascertained that चाँपो itself was derived from चाँपना which I believe is not the case. Hindi verb forms form a cognate paradigm where each inflected form can go back to a predecessor and not always derived from each other. But that is not how it is done currently, as I see many entries doing the exact opposite - especially the entries for Sanskrit numerals. -- Bhagadatta (talk) 10:12, 7 September 2020 (UTC)Reply

@Bhagadatta: It's true that Indo-Aryan inflected forms can go back to an Early NIA, MIA or OIA predecessor. If it can be ascertained that the inflected form has a different etymology from the lemma form, then the differing etymology (and any descendants) are placed there (such as at इस (is) and माझे (māj̈he)). It appears that the purpose of an inflected form entry is to be a redirect to the citation form. Since the lemma form entry usually contains all the information about a word in one place, perhaps something like this could appear at चाँपना (cā̃pnā) with the "<" format seen on reconstructed entries:

→ English: shampoo (< चाँपो (cā̃po)) (see there for further descendants)