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sentence. Hence, the final noun of the noun phrase should be marked with an oblique
marker, which in this instance is jin, ‘woman.’ However, the actual subject in this line
may be the pronoun me, which is an oblique case pronoun. The words ciḧel u pîr u jin
may simply be a description of me.
In line 10, however, mezar u Înis u cin, ‘grave and (prophet) Înis and evil spirit’
are the nouns in a prepositional phrase. As discussed, the final noun in a prepositional
phrase, in this instance cin, ‘evil spirit,’ should be marked as oblique. In order to rhyme
jin, a feminine noun, with cin, a masculine noun, the oblique marker -î was dropped. Use
of the oblique marker would have not just ruined the rhyme; it would have also extended
the line past the syllable count for the lines of the poem.
(280) ayet-a Kursî ji_berkir-Ø me ciḧêl u pîr (BS1:9, 10)
verse-EZ.F Kursî memorize.PST-3SG 1OP young and old
u jin
and woman
‘We―young, old, and women―memorized the Kursî verse.’
me du’a bu-Ø şev u ruj-an ji mezar u Înis
1OP prayer COP.PST-3SG night and day-OBL.PL from grave and Înis
u cin
and evil.spirit
‘We prayed (wished) night and day to grave and (prophet) Înis and evil spirit.’
In (281), Nalbend left off the oblique marker on the word dil, ‘heart,’ the subject
of an irregular verb, ‘want,’ which always demands the subject be in the oblique case. It
seems likely that his motivation was to reduce the syllable count.
(281) taze wesa dil(-î) vîa-Ø (AN2:35)
beautiful like.that heart(-OBL.M) (them) want.PST.3SG
‘The heart wanted them beautiful like that.’
5.4.1.2.7 Ellipsis of preposition
I only identified one ellipsis of a preposition. In line 43 of Duhî Spêdê Liser Banî,
‘Yesterday Morning On The Rooftop,’ shown in (282), the reader understands the phrase
although the unspoken preposition bu, ‘for,’ has been omitted. According to my