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(304) erê sîlav çima evro melwîl u hişk u zuha=yî? (BS7:1)
yes waterfall why today sad and dry and thirsty=COP.PRS.2SG
‘Yes, waterfall, why are you so sad and dry and thirsty today?’
Another emphasis word, nê, is found in line 6 of the same poem, shown in (305).
According to my consultant, nê has a usage similar to one usage of the word ‘do’ in
English―to emphasize or intensify. For example, someone meets with a friend she has
not seen in a long time and says ‘I do miss you.’ The word ‘do’ here intensifies the
feeling of missing. In the example below, Sindî is either emphasizing the action of nalîn
or the subject me, 1OP. More examples are needed in order to determine specifics about
how this word is used.
(305) nê me nal-î-Ø-ne ji dîr-î meî-ya (BS1:6)
do 1OP lament:PST-PRF-be:PST-3PL from distance-OBL.M wine-EZ.F
‘şq-a me mey=î
love-EZ.F 1OP wine=COP.PRS.2SG
‘We do lament from the distance, the wine of our love. You are the wine.’
Concerning the general use of emphatic words, it is difficult to know a poet’s
motivation for using them and there are probably many reasons to use them. Similarly, I
would expect that Kurdish emphatic words, like those in English, could have been used in
many locations in the poems where they were not used.
5.4.1.3.5 Omission of conjunctions and relativizers
In the discussion thus far, we have seen many situations where a poet has taken
the freedom to include or exclude some word. Another word that Northern Kurdish poets
often leave out is the conjunction meaning ‘and.’ Omission of conjunctions is called
asyndeton, which literally means ‘without connections’ (Adams 1997: 121). In many
situations in Northern Kurdish where a conjunction is not used, there is a tendency to use
a conjunction in the English translation, especially when the two clauses are short simple
sentences.
Consider the following two examples from Nalbend. In (306), Nalbend used the
conjunction u, ‘and.’ In (307), there is no conjunction. These are similar situations where
the subject is the same for both clauses in the line.