'o

O (vor einem Namen in direkter Anrede)

Wortart

Ausruf

Aussprache

/ʔo/

'o Buchstabe für Buchstabe aussprechen:

• '/ʔ/glottal stop, the catch in 'uh-oh'
• o/o/o as in 'go'

Appears before a name used as direct address. As we saw it used, it acted a little like a vocative prefix: 'o qeylIS, qeylIS, qeylIS... It seems to be an honorific exclamation, or maybe it's just used for direct address in general and doesn't actually have the implication of deference or reverence that I inferred. If it hadn't been consistently present when the opera "speaks to" Kahless, and consistently absent when it "speaks to" Molor, I might have ignored it as an unimportant background sound. English has almost exactly the same sound with pretty much the same meaning: "O Mouse, do you know the way out of this pool? I am very tired of swimming about here, O Mouse!" (from Alice's Adventures in Wonderland) /Alan Anderson (talking about the Klingon opera 'u')

2011-qep'a' (2011-08-22-Email)

Ursprünglich von klingonska.org zusammengetragen und von lingoXpress erweitert.