Vocative for nominative

[Robert A. Rothstein]

The vocatives of certain masculine hypocoristics are common in 
nominative function in colloquial Polish and in some Polish dialects, 
e.g., _Stasiu_, _dziadziu_, _wujciu_ instead of _Stasio_, _dziadzio_, 
_wujcio_. Jan Miodek has suggested that this may be the result of a 
phonetic process of assimilation of the vowel "o" to the preceding 
consonant, later potentially reinterpreted as vocative for nominative, 
whence _mistrzu_ for _mistrz_.

Bob Rothstein

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