po-
See also: Appendix:Variations of "po"
Czech Edit
Prefix Edit
po-
- Perfective aspect, as in požádat ("to ask")
- (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
- Pobaltí — the Baltics, Baltic states
- Podněstří — Transnistria, Pridnestrovie
- Podunají — Danube River Basin, Danube Region
- Říšská župa Horní Podunají — Reichsgau Oberdonau
- pohraničí — borderland, frontier
- Polabí — Elbe River Basin
- Polabští Slované — Polabian Slavs
- Pomoraví — Morava River Basin
- povodí Moravy — Morava River Basin
- Pomořansko — Pomerania
- Porúří — Ruhr district
- Povartí — Wartheland
- Povolží — Volga Region
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
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: