Your names but Klingon

Inspired by @alatari ’s Elvish thread

I’ll translate your names into Klingon. I cannot provide 100% accuracy, but I will try. I’ll give you both the name translated by meaning and how the name itself would be spelled/pronounced in Klingon.

disclaimer: I’m not a Star Trek fan. I just got carried away on Duolingo one day.

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Can you do koa sky? Thanks :slight_smile:

How cool! Could you please do [name_f]Evaluna[/name_f]? I don’t know if you need the meaning of the name but it means “life and moon”. :slight_smile:

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Could you do my name (Mary) please?

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@skylerros Phonetically, [name_u]Koa[/name_u] [name_u]Sky[/name_u] is Qoa SQa (pron. KOH-ah skhah)

[name_u]Koa[/name_u] means warrior. This could be translated to the word for soldier, “mang”. [name_u]Sky[/name_u] is chal.

Your name is mang chal (pron. mang kahl)

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@kasatka Phonetically, [name_f]Evaluna[/name_f] is etlhaloona (“tlh” is a t sound, but at the sides of the tongue like an l)

life and moon is “yIn maS je” (a as in “father”)

So Eveluna would be yInmaSje “yin-mahsh-jay”.

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@kidpix21 Phonetically, [name_f]Mary[/name_f] is mary (rhymes with [name_u]Ari[/name_u] and Mari).

I’ll go with Mary’s “bitter” meaning.

bitter is “wIb”

Your name is wIb (pron. “wib”).

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My BIG brain is confuzzled-

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[name_f]Mary[/name_f] is usually pronounced like [name_f]Merry[/name_f], but the Klingon a is said like the a in “father” :slight_smile:

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Oooooooohhhhh

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Wow, thank you so much! yInmaSje is SO cool! The sound is rather lovely as well!

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this is so interesting!! I’d love to know what [name_f]Ayelet[/name_f] would be :blush: (meaning gazelle or doe)

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@baya44 I love the name [name_f]Ayelet[/name_f]!

Phonetically, [name_f]Ayelet[/name_f] is aghelet (note: “gh” is a throaty sound and “t” is always said with a puff of air at the end).

Animal names are harder. A Da’nal is a type of bird characterized by its erratic, predictable behavior. That’s like a doe/gazelle in a way?

[name_f]Ayelet[/name_f] is (sort of??) Da’nal. Maybe just go with aghelet for more accuracy.

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thank you so much!! I have to go with Da’nal as it’s absolutely beautiful :wink:

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:rofl:

what would reisl or rey be like? or, alternatively, do they have any words meaning lion? do lions exist in star trek :o

Could you please do [name_f]Tatiana[/name_f] and/or Valborg? Thanks in advance!

This is fun (the geek in me immediately clicked)! I’d love to see [name_f]Nora[/name_f] and [name_m]Simon[/name_m]!

Could you do Polly, Elizabeth, and Theodore please?

@Aren I’ll try Rey.

Phonetically, Rey is re (reh).

I’ll interpret Rey’s meaning as “king”. The word for leader is “DevwI’”.

Rey would be DevwI’ (dev-wih).
(There is no word for lion).

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@Klaralinnea I couldn’t find a meaning for Tatiana, but it’s phonetically tatIana (pronounced the same way). Valborg is valborgh (gh is a back of the throat sound).

Valborg comes from the Germanic wald “power, leader, ruler” and burg fortress. We’ll take the above mentioned DevwI’ and veng (city).

Valborg is DevwI’veng (dev-wih [full stop] veng)

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@almostactually Nora is phonetically nora’ and Simon is SImen (shih-men).

If we take Nora to mean “honor”, it is quv (koov).
Simon is “he has heard”. I had to use an online Klingon translator for this, so it might not be correct, but it’s possibly Qoy (khwee).

quv and Qoy.

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@katkabet I chose to do Jamie because I just feel like it. Phonetically, Jamie is jeH’mI (jeh-mih). The “H” is like the Hebrew “ch”.

Jamie means “supplanter”. We’ll form this concept by adding DavHam (“false honor”) to DevwI’ (“leader”).

Jamie is DavHamDevwI’ (dhahv-hahm-dhev-wih).

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@new.romantic Elizabeth and Theodore have religious meanings, so I won’t translate them. Instead, I’ll give you the names phonetically.

Elizabeth- elISabegh (eh-lih-sha-begh)
Theodore- te’oHDor (essentially like Teodor)
Polly- pa’lI (pah-lih)

Polly is a diminutive of Mary. I’ve already done Mary earlier, where I interpreted it as “bitter”. This time, I’ll take it to mean “rebelliousness”. The Klingon word for “rebel” is lotIh.

Polly is lotIh (low + tIh, which I explained above).

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Thank you!

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Thank you!

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we’re a lot of devwls here i see hah
thank you!

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