tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Wed Apr 21 09:03:02 1999
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Klingon names
- From: Carleton Copeland <copeland@eycis.com>
- Subject: Klingon names
- Date: Wed, 21 Apr 1999 19:53:31 +-400
What do we know about the full form of a Klingon name? Gleaning bits and pieces from various (and perhaps incompatible) Web pages, my synthesis would look something like this:
<be'etor ja'roD-puqbe' SantaI-DuraS tuq>
chosen name - patronymic - honorific - line name
B'Etor Daughter of Ja'rod, Santai of the House of Duras
(SantaI seemed a plausible honorific for B'Etor)
Questions:
1) As a special case, can I get away with this word order and the lack of <bogh>? Surely, space-age Klingons don't take the time to say <ja'roD puqbe'bogh be'etor 'ej DuraS tuq SantaIbogh>. The war would be over by the time they finished roll call.
2) The Web pages I've looked at all omit <tuq>. For brevity's sake it might be convenient to omit <be'> (and <loD>) as well, making the patronymic <ja'roD-puq>, Child of Ja'rod.
3) What about the redundancy of <DuraS ja'roD-puq epetaI-DuraS>? (My impression is that <thlingan tuqmey> in TNG and DS9 generally took the name of their current head, while the Web creations tend to be persistent family names.)
Again, I apologize if this is already well-trodden ground.
qa'ral