THE VLACH LANGUAGE Only a few words form,
still
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preserve the true Latin vocative
e.g.
neighbour,
vitsine
barbate
husband,
fuvtate
blood
brother,
krishtine christian, kusurine cousin.
Exceptions to any rule are the vocatives
of
Dumnidzeu Dumnidzale God, Hristo Hristoase
Christ.
Diminutives These
may
terminations
be formed by the addition
of
the following
:
iku, ikd as fitsJioru fitshoriku, little
boy
;
featd fitikd, little
girl;
kurkubetd Kshu, ushd as Kola Kulushu, little Nicholas kurkubitushd, a little vegetable marrow ; iishd apparently only feminine, as gurd guritshd, a pretty little mouth yilie yilitshd, a pretty little glass shoru apparently masculine only, k'inu k'inshoru, a nice little pine bunii bunshoru, rather good ; loku lokshoru, ;
;
;
;
a nice
little
Fitshoru boy,
and
is
place.
is itself
really a diminutive of this last class
derived from the obsolete
be the masculine form oi featd An Albanian diminutive is
fetii,
which would
of course
girl.
zd,
ndtheamdzd a very
little.
Adjectives. Adjectives are declined in in
II
decline thus s.
:
all
cases like the nouns.
Those