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(213) şah-ê baz-an mîr-ê Qad-an wî ne-bada-n (BS1:43)
king-EZ.M falcon-OBL.PL leader-EZ.M field-OBL.PL 3OM NEG-surrender.PST-3PL
hizir u bîr
idea and thought
‘The king of falcons, the leader of the fields, 79 he did not deviate from (his) ideas
and thoughts.’
lew ji hîngê ew li sîngê can=e (BS1:44)
that.is.why from then 3D in chest-EZ.M beautiful=COP.PRS.3SG,
bexş-ên genc u pîr
offering-EZ.PL youth and elder
‘That’s why since that time he (is) in the heart (chest) of the fresh offerings of the
youth and the old.’
In Gerîanek Di Kurdistanê Da, ‘A Walk Through Kurdistan,’ Sindî put the object
at the end of three lines, likely for rhyming purposes. In the first line of (214), the object
cwanek, ‘a pretty lady,’ would normally come before the verb dît, ‘saw.’ In the first line
of (215), the object, vî canî, would normally come before the verb, gurîkim, ‘sacrifice.’
Lastly, in the second line of (216), the object, yarîa bîka, ‘doll games,’ is positioned after
the verb, dikirin, ‘were playing.’ The line with normal constituent order would have been
yarîa bîka pê dikirin. 80 The prepositional phrase, pê, a contraction of the preposition bi
and the 3SG oblique pronoun wî, refers back to darek, ‘a stick,’ in line 31. The rhymed
lines are shown in each example.
(214) min dît-Ø li wêrê cwan-ek (BS2:3, 4)
I see.PST-3sg at there pretty.lady-INDF
‘I saw a pretty lady there.’
awir di-da-Ø ji alek
wink IPFV-give.PST-3SG from corner
‘She was winking from a corner.’
79 The word qad by itself means ‘field, open space.’ Here it may refer to a battlefield, which is qada şer,
‘field of battle.’
80 The verb ‘play’ is idiomatic and consists of yarî, ‘game,’ and the verb kirin, which means ‘do’ or ‘make.’
Yarî becomes part of the object when modifiers are attached to it, as is the case in this example. There are
many similar idiomatic verbs in Northern Kurdish.