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

Piotr Gasiorowski wrote:

> 29-04-2004 20:12, alex wrote:
>
>> 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?
>
> Yes.
>
> Piotr

Apparently something is not so easy to explain. The fem. vocative in
Rom. is made with the help of a long "o" in the same manner as the
masc. vocative is made with a long "e". How is to explain the use of a
long "o" in Rom. if originaly there has been a Slavic short "o"?

Alex