'o

O (prima di un nome nell'allocuzione diretta)

Categoria grammaticale

esclamazione

Pronuncia

ʔo

Pronuncia 'o lettera per lettera:

• 'ʔglottal stop, the catch in 'uh-oh'
• ooo 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)

Originariamente raccolto da klingonska.org e arricchito da lingoXpress.