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

From: Piotr Gasiorowski
Message: 32396
Date: 2004-04-29

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