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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]

  1. (with locative) after
  2. by
  3. 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
    • Old Polish: po
      • Masurian: po
      • Polish: po
      • Silesian: po
    • Slovak: po
    • Pomeranian:
    • Sorbian:
      • Upper Sorbian: po
      • Lower Sorbian: pó

References
  1. Derksen, Rick (2008) “*po, *pa”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, →ISSN, page 407: “prep., pref. ‘after, by, at’”

Further reading
  • Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “по”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress
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