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

On Thu, 29 Apr 2004 21:02:11 +0200, alex
<alxmoeller@...> wrote:

>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"?

The same way we explain why the masc. voc. has a long /e/ (if
that's what it has, I don't recall vowel length being
phonemic in Romanian), as opposed to Slavic (and Latin, and
PIE) short /e/.

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