po-

See also: Appendix:Variations of "po"

Czech

Prefix

po-

1. Perfective aspect, as in požádat ask
2. After, as in pozdě late, from po
3. 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

• po- in Slovník afixů užívaných v češtině, 2017

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Esperanto

Prefix

po-

1. 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

• -ope

Derived terms

• poa
• pogrande

Related terms

• po

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Latin

Etymology

Proto-Indo-European *h₂pó, zero-grade of *h₂epo (whence ab).

Prefix

po-

1. off, away

Derived terms

• pōno
• pōrceō

References

• De Vaan, Michiel (2008) Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill
• Julius Pokorny (1959), Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch, in 3 vols, Bern, München: Francke Verlag

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Polish

Prefix

po-

1. Prepended to imperfective verbs to form iterative perfectives

   narzekać impf (“to complain”) — ponarzekać pf (“to complain some”)

   nalepiać impf (“to glue, to stick”) — ponalepiać pf (“to stick in several places”)

2. Prepended to imperfective verbs to create semelfactive perfectives

   grzebać (“to be burying”) – pogrzebać (“to bury”)

Derived terms

► Polish words prefixed with po-

Further reading

• po- in Polish dictionaries at PWN

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Serbo-Croatian

Prefix

po- (Cyrillic spelling по-)

1. perfective aspect
2. After, on, a-, from po

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Slovene

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *po-. Prefixed form of the preposition po.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pɔ-/

Prefix

po-

1. Forms perfective verbs with the following meanings:
   1. (no change in meaning)

      ‎po- + ‎jẹ́sti (“to eat”) → ‎pojẹ́sti (“to eat”)

   2. for a while

      ‎po- + ‎spáti (“to sleep”) → ‎pospáti (“to sleep for a while”)

   3. one after another

      ‎po- + ‎gubīti (“to lose”) → ‎pogubīti (“to lose one after another”)

Derived terms

► Slovene words prefixed with po-