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

Piotr Gasiorowski wrote:

> 29-04-2004 19:12, alex wrote:
>
>> do I make a mistake or these "biró, djaló" in "biró"/bir",
>> "djaló/djalë" are kind of vocative?
>
> Cimochowski calls them "formes de mots au sens exclamative", which
> suggests a vocative value. The suffix is long (in length-preserving
> dialects), stressed (/-ó:/) and gender-insensitive, and so different
> from Slavic -o in *-a:- stems, borrowed into Romanian (if that's

what

> you're driving at), as in <fato> and <soro>.
>
> Piotr

biró and djaló are masculine nouns and I think that should be a bad
idea for explaining the vocative in "o" in Rom. trough an vocative in
"o" for masculine in Alb.
BTW, is the "o" in Slavic a short "o" for that kind of "o" which is
assumed to have played a certain role in making the vocative in
Romanian?

Alex