po-
See also: Appendix:Variations of "po"
Czech edit
Pronunciation edit
Prefix edit
po-
- Perfective aspect
- (as an imperfective verb) (often used with se or si) intensification: added to mean to do X during a certain time period (rather calmly, enjoying it)
- po- + přemítat (“reflect on sth”) → popřemítat si (“reflect for some time”)
- after-, as in pozdě late, from po
- unto-, at-, along-, as in place names
- po- + Balt + -í → Pobaltí (“the Baltics, Baltic states”)
- po- + Dněstr + -í → Podněstří (“Transnistria, Pridnestrovie”)
- po- + hranice + -í → pohraničí (“borderland, frontier”)
- po- + moře + -an + -sko → Pomořansko (“Pomerania”)
- po- + Rúr + -í → Porúří (“Ruhr district”)
- po- + Rýn + -í → Porýní (“Rhineland”)
- po- + voda + -í → povodí (“drainage basin”)
Derived terms edit
Further reading edit
- po- in Slovník afixů užívaných v češtině, 2017
Esperanto edit
Prefix edit
po-
- A prefix having a similar distributive meaning as the preposition po.
- vendi pogrande ― sell wholesale
- la ponumera prezo ― the price per issue
- poiom ― bit by bit
Antonyms edit
Derived terms edit
Related terms edit
Latin edit
Etymology edit
From Proto-Italic *po, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂pó, zero-grade of *h₂epo (whence ab).
Prefix edit
po-
Derived terms edit
References edit
- De Vaan, Michiel (2008) Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7)[1], Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN
- Julius Pokorny (1959), Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch, in 3 vols, Bern, München: Francke Verlag
Old Polish edit
Etymology edit
Inherited from Proto-Slavic *po.
Prefix edit
po-
Derived terms edit
Descendants edit
- Polish: po-
Polish edit
Etymology edit
Inherited from Old Polish po-, from Proto-Slavic *po.
Pronunciation edit
Prefix edit
po-
- prepended to imperfective verbs to form iterative perfectives
- po- + narzekać → ponarzekać
- po- + nalepiać → ponalepiać
- prepended to imperfective verbs to create semelfactive perfectives
- after-
- unto-, at-, along-, as in place names
- po- + morze → Pomorze
- po- + dół → Podole
- po- + granica → pogranicze
- po- + jezioro → pojezierze
Derived terms edit
Further reading edit
- po- in Polish dictionaries at PWN
Serbo-Croatian edit
Etymology edit
Inherited from Proto-Slavic *po-, from *po, whence also comes the Serbo-Croatian preposition po.
Prefix edit
po- (Cyrillic spelling по-)
- marks the perfective aspect
- after, on, a-
Slovene edit
Etymology edit
From Proto-Slavic *po-. Prefixed form of the preposition po.
Pronunciation edit
Prefix edit
po-
- Forms perfective verbs with the following meanings: