Re: [tied] Birdo [was Re: Risoe fo the Feminine]

Piotr Gasiorowski wrote:

> I wouldn't be so sure about the *-t-. Cimochowski discusses a whole
> collection of Albanian terms for pigeons. He quotes <videzë> 'wood
> pigeon, ringdove' and <vidhezë> (originally diminutives), <vitó,
> vitója> (f.); <vidó>; Geg <vidâ, vidani> (m., with the suffix -an-

of

> Slavic origin); and North Geg <vidhë>. The most likely prototype for
> all this variation is *vid, typically accompanied by the exclamatory
> particle mentioned by Sergei (cf. biró/bir 'son', djaló/djalë 'boy',
> vashó/vashë 'girl'). The variant with /-t-/, as often in Albanian,
> results from the generalisation of final devoicing.
>
> Piotr

do I make a mistake or these "biró, djaló" in "biró"/bir",
"djaló/djalë" are kind of vocative?

Alex