tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Wed Sep 18 12:26:29 2002
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Re: worf
tulwI' asks:
>can you tell me what's worf's name in klingon?
It's {wo'rIv}:
qaStaHvIS wa'maH puq poHmey, wo'rIv betleH ghaj qorDu'Daj
Worf's bat'telh has been in his family for ten generations. S8
qorDu'Daj tuq 'oS Ha'quj'e' tuQbogh wo'rIv
The sash that Worf wears is a symbol of his family's house. S20
>in klingon there is no "f".
Cp. {verengan} Ferengi, {veqlargh} Fek'lhr, etc.
>(incidentally, his brother's name "qurn" is also strange due to it's "rn".)
AFAIK there's no official spelling yet. In the interim, try *{qurIn}.
Remember that "Worf", "Kurn", etc. are only Federation spellings based on
how the name sounds to the average Federation Standard speaker, with no
relation to Federation linguist Marc Okrand's own phonetic
transcription. Sometimes the spellings of Klingon names will correspond in
both systems (e.g. {mogh} Mogh), sometimes they won't (e.g. {tlha'a} Klaa,
{qeylIS} Kahless).
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Voragh
Ca'Non Master of the Klingons