CCONJ:
Definition
The coordinating conjunctions of Middle Persian do not specify the relationship of the coordinated syntactic units. These can be clauses, phrases but also phrasal pairs.
- ān ī az tō keh pad hamtāg ud hamtāg pad meh ud azišmeh pad sālār ud sālār pad xwadāy dār “Treat the one inferior to you as an equal, and the equal one as greater, and the superior one as a master, and the master as a lord!”
Middle Persian tends to begin sentences with ud “and”, which can also link a subclause with its matrix clause, which may better be described as connectors.
Examples
- ud “and”
- ayāb “or”
- bē “but”
Border cases
The word bē can appear as both the junctor “but” and the adverb “however”.
The enclitic =iz is an additive particle, which conveys the meaning “also, and” but also appears as a focus marker.
CCONJ in other languages: [axm] [bej] [bg] [bm] [cs] [cy] [da] [el] [en] [es] [ess] [et] [fi] [fr] [fro] [ga] [grc] [hbo] [hy] [hyw] [it] [ja] [ka] [kpv] [ky] [myv] [naq] [no] [oge] [pal] [pcm] [ps] [pt] [qpm] [ru] [sl] [sv] [tr] [tt] [u] [uk] [urj] [xcl] [xmf] [yue] [zh]