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Czech
Pronunciation
Prefix
po-
- Perfective aspect
- po- + žádat → 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
- 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
Further reading
- po- in Slovník afixů užívaných v češtině, 2017
Esperanto
Prefix
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
Derived terms
Latin
Etymology
From Proto-Italic *po, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂pó, zero-grade of *h₂epo (whence ab).
Prefix
po-
- off, away
Derived terms
References
- De Vaan, Michiel (2008) Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN
- Julius Pokorny (1959), Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch, in 3 vols, Bern, München: Francke Verlag
Old Polish
Etymology
Inherited from Proto-Slavic *po-.
Prefix
po-
- perfectivizing prefix
- po- + karmić → pokarmić
Derived terms
Descendants
Polish
Etymology
Inherited from Old Polish po-, from Proto-Slavic *po-.
Pronunciation
Prefix
po-
- prepended to imperfective verbs to form iterative perfectives
- po- + narzekać → ponarzekać
- po- + nalepiać → ponalepiać
- prepended to imperfective verbs to create semelfactive perfectives
- po- + grzebać → pogrzebać
- after-
- po- + świat → poświata
- unto-, at-, along-, as in place names
- po- + morze → Pomorze
- po- + dół → Podole
- po- + granica → pogranicze
- po- + jezioro → pojezierze
Derived terms
Further reading
- po- in Polish dictionaries at PWN
Serbo-Croatian
Etymology
Inherited from Proto-Slavic *po-, from *po, whence also comes the Serbo-Croatian preposition po.
Prefix
po- (Cyrillic spelling по-)
- marks the perfective aspect
- after, on, a-
Slovene
Etymology
From Proto-Slavic *po-. Prefixed form of the preposition po.
Pronunciation
Prefix
po-
- Forms perfective verbs with the following meanings:
- (no change in meaning)
- po- + jẹ́sti (“to eat”) → pojẹ́sti (“to eat”)
- for a while
- po- + spáti (“to sleep”) → pospáti (“to sleep for a while”)
- one after another
- po- + gubīti (“to lose”) → pogubīti (“to lose one after another”)
Derived terms