a-practical-kurdish-grammar

128 A PRACTICAL KURDISH GRAMMAR
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marians, as we may see from the table of comparison given
by Ferdinand Justi, No. 170, page 214-217.
PARTICIPLES
312. These two very similar verbs have no other participial
forms than y (bii). It cannot be used adjectively, but in com¬
pound verbs it is sometimes used as a noun. Examples:
Sy Ö3 (win bii-i) 'the lost one', ö\y 03 (win bii-an) 'the
lost ones'; f^y J^(blaii bii-i) 'the scattered (part'),
.ö\y 3%^ (blaii) bû-an) 'the scattered ones'; j_^^ ciii_j (wishk
bi5-i) 'the dry one', ij\y diij (wishk bii-an) 'the dry ones'.
Verbal Noun
oy (biin)
'being'
(The act of being)
A List of Intransitive Verbs
313. It is not to be presumed that all the regular and ir¬
regular intransitive verbs are given here. An effort has, how¬
ever, been made to collect as many of the verbs in common
use as possible.
Although one or two meanings are placed opposite each
verbal root, this is by no means a dictionary. Frequently a
verb is used in four or five or more meanings. Only one, or
at the most two, of these are given.
Very many Kurdish verbs employ the separable prefixes
(see 195, 1), which give them various significations, and nearly
all the Kurdish verbs may take the suffix oj (-wa), and some