a-practical-kurdish-grammar

NOUNS 29
61. In vowel changes, the accent of an assimilated vowel
falls on the vowel that assimilated it.
PUNCTUATION
62. It has been deemed advisable to introduce a few marks
of punctuation. These are, the period (.), as we use it; the
colon (:), as a substitute for our comma and semi-colon; and
the question mark, exclamation point and parenthesis, as we
use them in English.
CHAPTER II
NOUNS
63. There are two genders in Kurdish, masculine and fem¬
inine, and the nouns are of two numbers, the .singular and
the plural.
Gender
64. In Kurdish most animals have names designating the
masculine and feminine, as . j> (hasp) 'horse', and .yi>
(mayîn) 'mare'; ^Ib (kalabab) 'rooster', and ciAl.^
(marishk) 'hen'; dlL'O^(göl-a-sag) ^dog' (m), and
di\l«d)i(del-a-sag) 'bitch', etc.
The female of mankind also has a special name designating
gender. Ex. ^, (kich) 'giri'; jj (zhin) 'woman'.
But the gender of some animals is designated, as with us, by
the word 'male', ^ (ner), and by the word 'female', ^^
(me), which are usually placed after the noun.
Examples ^ aLIj (pishila-ner) male-cat.