Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/po

This Proto-Slavic entry contains reconstructed terms 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-Balto-Slavic *pa, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂pó. Balto-Slavic cognates include Latvian pa, Lithuanian pa-, 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]

(with locative) after
by
at

Descendants

East Slavic:
- Belarusian: по (po), па (pa)
- Russian: по (po)
- Carpathian Rusyn: по (po)
- Ukrainian: по (po)
South Slavic:
- Old Church Slavonic:
  Old Cyrillic script: по (po)
  
  Glagolitic script: ⱂⱁ (po)
- Bulgarian: по (po)
- Macedonian: по (po)
- Serbo-Croatian:
  Cyrillic script: по
  
  Latin script: po
- Slovene: po (tonal orthography)
West Slavic:
- Old Czech: po
  - Czech: po
- Old Polish: po
  - Polish: po
  - Silesian: po
- Slovak: po
- Pomeranian:
  - Kashubian: pò, pó
  - Slovincian: pô
- Sorbian:
  - Upper Sorbian: po
  - Lower Sorbian: pó

References

^ 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’”