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Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/po

This Proto-Slavic entry contains reconstructed words and roots. As such, the term(s) in this entry are not directly attested, but are hypothesized to have existed based on comparative evidence.

Proto-Slavic

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *h₂pó. Balto-Slavic cognates include Lithuanian po, Old Prussian pa-, po-.

Indo-European cognates include Mycenaean Greek 𐀀𐀢 (a-pu), Sanskrit अप (ápa, “away, off”), Latin ab (“from”), Old Persian 𐎠𐎱 (apa, “away”), Proto-Germanic *ab (“away from”).

Another variant of the preposition (likely descending from pre-Slavic *pós) has been used to form the adverbs Proto-Slavic *pozdě (“lately”) and Proto-Slavic *poslě (“afterwards”).

Preposition

*po [1]

  1. (with locative) after
  2. by
  3. at

Descendants
  • East Slavic:
  • South Slavic:
    • Old Church Slavonic:
      Cyrillic: по (po)
      Glagolitic: ⱂⱁ (po)
    • Bulgarian: по (po)
    • Macedonian: по (po)
    • Serbo-Croatian:
      Cyrillic: по
      Latin: po
    • Slovene: po (tonal orthography)
  • West Slavic:
    • Czech: po
    • Kashubian: pò
    • Polish: po
    • Slovak: po
    • Sorbian:
      • Lower Sorbian: pó
      • Upper Sorbian: po

References
  1. Derksen, Rick (2008), “*po, *pa”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 407: “prep., pref. ‘after, by, at’”
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