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

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "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"?

Because Romanian did (does?) not have contrastive vowel length!

Richard.