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Lower Sorbian
Etymology
pó (“after”) + tom (locative of ten (“that”)); cognate with Upper Sorbian potom, Czech potom, Polish potem, Serbo-Croatian potom, Russian пото́м (potóm).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈpɨtɔm/, /ˈpɛtɔm/, (dated) /ˈpʊtɔm/
Adverb
pótom
- then (at that time)
- afterwards, then (soon afterwards)
Further reading
- Muka, Arnošt (1921, 1928) “pótom”, in Słownik dolnoserbskeje rěcy a jeje narěcow (in German), St. Petersburg, Prague: ОРЯС РАН, ČAVU; Reprinted Bautzen: Domowina-Verlag, 2008
- Starosta, Manfred (1999) “pótom”, in Dolnoserbsko-nimski słownik / Niedersorbisch-deutsches Wörterbuch (in German), Bautzen: Domowina-Verlag