'mo = homo

[Douglas G. Wilson]

>'mo = homo was new to me.  it's an example (relatively rare, but not
>unattested) of a word clipped down to its unstressed final syllable.
>anyone have other attestations for 'mo?

HDAS shows this "mo" from 1968 (as a verb also). I heard it around 1968 IIRC.

Can an argument be made that the "mo" in ancestral "homo" has secondary
stress? [I can't picture "mo" < "homasekshul".]

A somewhat comparable case which comes to mind immediately: "groid" <
"Negroid" (in HDAS).

-- Doug Wilson