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Lastly, line 9 of Dergehê Jîn U Hîvî Ya, ‘The Door of Life and Hopes,’ contains
two equative phrases, one with normal word order and one with an Adjective
Phrase/Noun Phrase-Copula-Subject word order. Kavil can be either a noun meaning
‘ruin’ or an adjective meaning ‘ruined’ or ‘destroyed.’ This word and the connecting 3SG
copula, e, are followed by the subject fezê gulan, which means ‘farm of flowers.’ Because
mişexit, in the first phrase, is a noun, literally ‘a displaced person’ or ‘an exile,’ I tend to
think that kavil is also being used as a noun, ‘ruin,’ in the second phrase. Note that this
line exhibits a chiastic structure, SBJ-PRED-PRED-SBJ, where the structure of the second
clause is the inverse of the first. However, the motivation to place gulan at the end of the
line was likely not to produce chiasmus but to rhyme it with the final word in line 10,
dilan (not shown). See § 5.4.1.4.4 for the discussion on chiasmus.
(210) bilbil-ê bê kes mişexit=e u (BS4:9)
nightingale-EZ.M without anyone exile=COP.PRS.3SG and
kavil=e fez-ê gul-an
ruin=COP.PRS.3SG farm-EZ.M flower-OBL.PL
‘The single nightingale is an exile and the farm of flowers are a ruin’
5.4.1.1.3 Subject-Verb-Object
As discussed in § 4.4.1.2, the normal constituent order for Northern Kurdish is
SOV. Within the corpus I found numerous instances where Sindî put an object after a
verb. In line 4 of Bîwerîa Barzanî Yê Nemir, shown in example (211), we know that
reḧmê, ‘compassion,’ is a noun and not a part of a complex verb, because it ends with the
feminine oblique marker, -ê. According to my consultant, “for poetic effect” Sindî placed
the object after the verb bike, ‘do.’ Also, reḧim is an Arabic word. The Northern Kurdish
word for compassion is dilovanî, a four syllable word. It seems that Sindî resorted to use
of an Arabic word because reḧim, even with the oblique marker, is only two syllables. As
discussed in § 5.3.2 on syllable count, the i in reḧim elides with the addition of the oblique
marker. The m becomes the onset of the second syllable.
(211) tu bi-ke reḧm-ê ji mirîd-an kengî dê (BS1:4)
2D IRR-do.IMP.SG compassion-OBL.F for disciple-OBL.PL when will