[tlhIngan Hol] Nouns in apposition

[Steven Boozer]

juHqo' Qo'noSvo' loghDaq lengtaHvIS tlhInganpu'
During the (aggressive) expansion of the Klingon people from their homeworld of Kronos into space... SP1
Note that only one -vo’ is used. (This is from our X-vo’ Z-Daq discussion of a few weeks ago.)

Note that this is true apposition:  A = B.  Both A and B refer to the exact same thing:  juHqo’ = Qo’noS “Kronos, the Homeworld”.  A more familiar example would be names; e.g. “Worf’s wife, Jadzia” or “the Starship Enterprise” (i.e. a specific ship).

The examples I posted before weren’t apposition but more a narrowing of focus – there’s probably a grammatical name for this -- like a postal address.  For example:  Milky Way Galaxy, Sol System, Earth, European Union, Greece, Athens, Postal Area 14, Archimedes Street, Building No. 123, Apartment 4B.  Each part is a subset of the one before.

--Voragh

From: mayqel qunenoS
Thank you voragh. Are there canon examples of nouns in apposition, with type-5 suffixes other than {-Daq} ?

On Sep 20, 2017 5:09 PM, "Steven Boozer" <sboozer at uchicago.edu<mailto:sboozer at uchicago.edu>> wrote:
tlhIngan juHqo'Daq tlhIng yoSDaq 'oH toQDuj chenmoHlu'meH Daq wa'DIch'e'
1st Construction Site: The Kling District, Klingon Home World.  (KBoP)
“in the Kling District on the Klingon home world” = one place (i.e. a single shipyard)
loghDaq lupDujHom qoDDaq bIlengtaHvIS, nIbuQbogh novpu' DaSuv
Battle menacing aliens in a shuttlecraft journey through space.  (STX)
 “inside a shuttlecraft in space” = one place (i.e. a single ship)
--Voragh
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