More (interjection) (original) (raw)
More, re, bre (with many variants) are interjections and/or vocative particles common to Albanian, Greek, Romanian, South Slavic (Bulgarian, Serbian {including Bosnian, Montenegrin and Macedonian} ), Turkish, Venetian and Ukrainian. According to Eric Hamp with its "locus... more in the Greek world than elsewhere". It is used in colloquial speech to gain someone's attention, add emphasis, insult, or express surprise or astonishment, similar to the Argentinian vocable of unknown origin, "Che."