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(296) kanê gundî (BS6:17-19)
where people (village)
‘Where’s the people?’
kanê ban
where roof
‘Where’s roof?’
ka dil-ê min
where heart-EZ.M 1O
‘Where’s my heart?’
5.4.1.3.2 Use of alternate word forms for rhyming purposes
In some situations, the choice of an alternate word form, or in this example, word
ending, is used for rhyming purposes. Hence, the choice is not for syntactic purposes, as
was evident in § 5.4.1.3.1, but for rhyme. In line 10 of Dergehê Jîn U Hîvî Ya, ‘The Door
of Life and Hopes,’ shown in (297), Sindî used two variants of the plural oblique suffix, -
a and -an. The -an suffix is the standard for written texts, while the -a suffix is common
in the spoken language. The first usage is on hinav, ‘guts.’ It has the plural ending -a. At
the end of the line, dil, ‘heart,’ has the ending -an. Sindî used the -an ending on dil to
rhyme dilan with gulan at the end of line 9 (not shown). Also worth noting here is the use
of the conjunction u, ‘and.’ According to my consultant, u could be replaced with a
comma, which is what the translator used in the English translation.
(297) agir-ek berbî-Ø hinav 116 -a u talan-a cerg (BS4:10)
fire-INDF occur in/on.PST-3SG guts-OBL.PL and pillage-EZ.F liver
u dil-an
and heart-OBL.PL
‘A fire occured in the guts, pillaging the livers and hearts.’
115 Aras is the name of the river Barzanî and other Kurds crossed to enter into the Soviet Union, in what is
now Azerbaijan.
116 Also defined as ‘organs of the abdominal area.’