pronounmasculine
Masculine singular vocative suffix
Forms familiar or pet names
Gives the definitive sense to a familiar subject
Intensifies curses and cusswords
Examples
mêr > mêro
man!
ker > kero
jackass!
Birahîm > Biro
Abraham > Abe
Ûsiv > Ûso
Joseph > Joe
Camêro nizane çi bike jî
The chap doesn't even know what to do
Kero em xapandin
The dumbass deceived us
Malxerabo!
Goddamn!
Min kîrê keran di quzê diya te kiro!
May I put a donkey dick in your mother's cunt
Etymology
From earlier *ûy, cognate with Persian ـویه, Middle Persian *-ōē, from Old Iranian *-avya- /au̯i̯a/. Originally was a suffix only for pet names. Compare also Armenian -ո (-o).