Am 02.03.2020 um 22:44 schrieb Steven Boozer:
Some more examples supporting the pattern :
QIncha' krincha (type of animal) (n) QIStaq Kri'stak (GN) QI'yoS wa' Krios Prime (GN)
Thanks.
Daqrab well (n) Hoqra' tricorder (n) neqratlh glasses, spectacles (n)
These are not real transriptions, just two-syllable Klingon words.
SIqral Skral (GN) {SIqral} surprises me a little. I might have expected *{SIQal}.
I would agree if the second part was a syllable starting with KR, like "See-kral". In the English spelling having three consonants at the beginning of the word, the vowel was logically added between the first two consonants (as happened in "Sutovokor" or "qI'empeq") so the half result was "SIkral", where it looks like Sik+ral, so SIqral. Of course, there were many other options to do this. -- Lieven L. Litaer aka the "Klingon Teacher from Germany" http://www.klingonisch.de http://www.klingonwiki.net/En/Transliteration