From: Miguel Carrasquer Vidal
Message: 7342
Date: 2001-05-22
>Just one more thing: <o> does occur in Slavic exclamations (e.g. Polish <o tak/nie!> 'oh yes/no!') including vocative phrases (<o Boz*e!> 'O God!' -- note the thematic -e ending). To be sure, this vocative <o> sounds rather formal (except in fixed phrases like the one cited) and could be used mostly for rhetorical or comic effect. Classical Greek used <ô:> (omega) with vocatives (e.g. <ô: Strumódo:re> 'O Strumodoros!'And the two cannot be related through regular sound change (Greek o: =