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(274) agr-ek boş li ser helkir-in, berzekir-in, 106 (H:6)
fire-INDF large on (3OM) set.PST-3PL (3OM) hide.PST-3PL
‘And (they) ignited a massive fire on him (his body), and hid him.’
5.4.1.2.6 Ellipsis of oblique marker
As mentioned in § 4.4.2.2, obliques are always marked in the Northern Kurdish of
northern Iraq. In the Northern Kurdish of Turkey, however, masculine nouns in the
oblique case are left unmarked, as is evident in the following example from Cegerxwîn,
who was from Turkey and Syria. In line 10 of Silav Li Sifra Hazire, ‘Salute the Feast Is
Ready,’ shown in (275), there is no oblique marker on Xidir. In the Northern Kurdish of
Iraq, Xidir would have the masculine oblique suffix, -î.
(275) şêx-ê ko tac u teylesan (CX2:9-10)
sheikh-EZ.M that crown and turban
‘The sheikh with crown and turban, ‘
weregirt-y-Ø-e reng-ê Xidir.
take:PST-PRF-be:PST-3SG color-EZ.M Khidir
‘has taken the shape of Green Knight.’ 107
Nalbend typically expresses masculine oblique markers, as can be seen in first
line of Duhî Spêdê Liser Banî, ‘Yesterday Morning On The Rooftop,’ which is also the
title of the poem. The masculine noun ban, ‘rooftop,’ is appropriately marked with the
masculine oblique marker, -î, as it is the final noun in a prepositional phrase. As well, the
feminine noun spêde, ‘morning,’ at the end of an adverbial clause, has the expected
feminine oblique marker, -ê. The final e on the end of spêde elides due to the presence of
the stronger oblique marking vowel.
106 From my direct correspondence with Denise Bailey, I learned that for past tense, transitive sentences,
there are some situations where agreement with the object does not always apply, such as when the subject
of the clause is third person plural and unexpressed. The plural -in ending is also commonly used when the
subject is impersonal, as it is in this entire poem.
107
According to the translator, the Islamic figure Xidir is close to the Western figure called the Green
Knight (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green_Knight).