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(262) gurz-ê di dest wan agir=e (CX2:8)
club-EZ.M in hand 3OP fire=COP.PRS.3SG
‘The club in their hand is fire.’
(263) silav li sifra hazir=e (CX2:28-29)
salute feast ready=COP.PRS.3SG
‘Salute, the feast (dining-table) is ready.’
seîda-yê rast u ron-î ye
teacher-EZ.M truth and light-OBL.M COP.PRS.3SG
‘He is the teacher of truth and light,’
(264) ên 105 ker di-bêj-in kafir=e (CX2:32)
EZ.PL donkey IRR-say.PRS-3PL infidel=COP.PRS.3SG
‘The ignorant ones say he’s a blasphemer (infidel).’
5.4.1.2.5 Ellipsis of ezafe conjunctive particle
In Silav Li Sifra Hazire, ‘Salute the Feast Is Ready,’ Cegerxwîn took liberty to
omit an ezafe conjunctive particle on the word dest in two lines. As far as I am aware, this
is not acceptable in Northern Kurdish spoken in Iraq. Cegerxwîn, however, was from
southern Turkey and Syria. Many educated people in Northern Iraq have stated that
Cegerxwîn’s language is quite different from the speech of the Badinan area, so perhaps
his dialect of Northern Kurdish allows this.
(265) mertal di dest(-êt) wan de bihuşt(=e) (CX2:7, 8)
shield in hand(-EZ.PL) 3OP in heaven(=COP.PRS.3SG)
‘The shield in their hands (is) heaven.’
gurz-ê di dest(-êt) wan agir=e
club-EZ.M in hand(-EZ.PL) 3OP fire=COP.PRS.3SG
‘The club in their hands is fire.’
However, Cegerxwîn was not the only poet to take this liberty. In several other
instances, Sindî omitted an ezafe particle. It seems that the omissions were made in order
to reach a desired syllable count. In (266), the feminine ezafe, -a, which would have
connected the adjective reş, ‘black,’ to the noun şev, ‘night,’ is missing. In (267), the
noun cih, ‘place,’ has no ezafe conjunctive particle for connecting to kew, ‘partridge.’
105 In this example the ezafe conjunctive particle is used as a relativizer. In order to function as an NP, ezafe
requires either a modifier (adjective phrase) or a relative clause.