vocative

• But there are words that Borrow does not seem to have known— poshe , near; kam , sun; ria , sir (vocative), and petalles , horse-shoe (accusative). —  Lavengro
• This demonstrates how boy, like man, has transformed from a male term of address (or "vocative") into an exclamation that can be used regardless of the addressee's gender. —  Visual Thesaurus : Online Edition
• Clockwork Orange, whose famously amoral, violent and affectively flattened narrator is fond of the vocative ( 'Let me tell you, O my brothers …'). —  The Valve
• But there are words that Borrow does not seem to have known--_poshe_, near; kam_, sun; ria_, sir (vocative), and petalles_, horse-shoe (accusative). —  Lavengro The Scholar - The Gypsy - The Priest, Vol. 1 (of 2)
• The vocative is like the nominative In MHG., as in the older periods of the other Germanic languages, nouns are divided into two great classes, according as the stem originally ended in a vowel or a consonant, cp. —  A Middle High German Primer Third Edition

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