pa

po; pa Grammatical information: pref. Proto-Slavic meaning: `after, by, at'

Old Church Slavic:

po `after, by, at' [prep/pref], pa [pref] \{1\}

Russian:

po `after, on, by, at, up to' [prep/pref], pa- [pref] \{2\}

Czech:

po `after, on, by, at, up to' [prep/pref], pa- [pref]

Polish:

po `after, on, by, at, up to' [prep/pref], pa- [pref]

Serbo-Croatian:

po `for, over, through, by, after' [prep/pref], pa- [pref]

Slovene:

pò `at, on, after, by' [prep/pref], pa- [pref]

Bulgarian:

po `on, over, in, at, to' [prep/pref]

Proto-Balto-Slavic reconstruction: po(ʔ) \{3\}

Lithuanian:

pa- forms perfective aspect [pref], pó- [pref]

Indo-European reconstruction: h₂po

Other cognates:

Skt. ápa- `away, from' [adv];

Gk. ἀπό `from, away from' [prep/pref];

Lat. ab [prep/pref] `from, away' [prep];

Go. af `from, away from, since' [prep/pref]

Notes:

\{1\} The nominal prefix pa- is the equivalent of the verbal prefix po-. \{2\} The prefix po- also forms perfective aspect in Russian and most other Slavic languages. \{3\} The glottal stop was probably adopted from nouns with an initial laryngeal.