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There were other instances where it looked as if an ezafe conjunctive particle was
omitted, but after speaking with my consultant, I learned that these instances, which I
discuss below, either call for no ezafe or an ezafe is optional. I have included these
examples so that the reader will be aware that the compounding of words occurs in the
language.
In (272) mêr xaz, ‘brave man,’ is correct without use of an ezafe particle. Chyet
(2003) lists mêrxas as meaning ‘hero, brave person.’ Hence, this is an example of a
compound word, two words that have become lexically one. In the same example, an
ezafe is considered optional in the second noun phrase, mêr çaka, ‘man of goodness.’ In
(273) the noun phrase cilil reş, ‘black clothing,’ is “like one word” according to my
consultant. No ezafe should be used. In (274), I would have expected to see an ezafe on
agrek, ‘a fire,’ to join with it the adjective boş, ‘large.’ However, after perusing other
poems by Hizirvan, I noticed that he usually does not use an ezafe conjunctive particle on
nouns that have an indefinite article suffix, whether masculine or feminine. While I
personally have not observed this dropping of an ezafe in the spoken language of
Northern Iraq, it seems that it is an aspect of at least one of its subdialects.
(272) nav mêr xaz u mêr(-ê) çak-a (BS2:44)
toward man brave and men(-EZ.M) goodness-OBL.PL
‘toward brave men and men of goodness’
(273) şagird-ên te heqe çû-Ø-ban bi mewkin ew (BS7:6)
disciple-EZ.PL 2O all go.PST-3SG-SBJV by.means.of procession 3D
cilil reş b-in
clothing black COP.PRS-3PL
‘It would have been right for your disciples to go in procession dressed in black
clothing.’