tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Wed Nov 30 11:15:20 2005
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Re: Klingon WOTD: SoS (noun)
>This is the Klingon Word Of The Day for Saturday, November 26, 2005.
>
>Klingon word: SoS
>Part of Speech: noun
>Definition: mother
Used in canon:
Hab SoSlI' Quch
Your mother has a smooth forehead!! PK
SoSwI' vavwI' je quvmoHjaj paqvam
[Okrand's dedication] KGT
Within the family, a child usually addresses his or her mother
as {SoS} (Mother) and father as {vav} (Father), though it is not
uncommon for younger children to use the words {SoSoy} (Mommy)
and {vavoy} (Daddy). These are the regular words for "mother" and
"father" followed by the suffix {-oy}, which indicates endearment.
Most older children drop the {-oy} around the time of their Age of
Ascension, though some continue to use it even after that, espe-
cially when addressing the parent of the opposite sex [...] Though
almost always heard as terms of direct address (as in {Sosoy jIghung}
["Mommy, I'm hungry"]), kinship terms with the suffix {-oy} are
occasionally used as subjects or objects of sentences, particularly
in the speech of younger children. For example, a proud child may
say, {SuvwI' ghaH vavoy'e'} ("My daddy is a warrior"). (KGT 198f)
--
Voragh
Ca'Non Master of the Klingons