My Name

[PostPartumRN]

What is my name in Kliingon? 

-Beverly

[ter'eS]

Whatever you want it to be.

[tesseraktik]

As ter'eS points out, it's up to you to decide what you want to call yourself.  However, if I were to try to modify your Terran name into the Klingon phonotax, I'd probably go with something like be'verlIy.

If I were to try to translate the meaning...  ...well, then, that'd be pretty difficult.  The meanings I've seen of "Beverly" are "Beaver stream" and "inhabitant of the beaver's meadow".  I suppose the closest I could come up with for that would be be'ver bIQtIQ ("Be'ver river") and be'ver yotlh DabwI' (Be'ver field dweller), but those names are a bit long to be used as names.

[qoSagh]

I am not so sure about the apostrophe in be'ver, is it there for sound or aesthetics? I don't think it is neaded to replace the a in beaver since the ea is a vowel blend, and besides while beaver may be part of the definition it is not part of the name Beverly. While many have used it to add a cool alien look to names, it is not really necessarily in all names.

As for transliterating names, I am generally not a fan of such things. I like finding a Klingon name that has no direct link with anything or at least if there is a link, then let it get obscured when figuring out the tlhIngan Hol spelling at a later point. I tried years ago to have a Klingon name that meant something, and by the time it was done it was too long to say in conversation. There are no real rules, only matters of taste and that taste is hardly universal.

[qurgh_]

I'd go with bIyvar or bIyver for Beaver.

For Beverly I'd drop probably the glottal stop too since *be'verlIy sounds more like be(t)-verly than the original English (at least the way I pronounce it... for me it's more like bev-er-ly anyway, which would be bev'erlIy.. at least that way the stop doesn't seem to break up the word as much since it starts the syllable). So I'd go with beverlIy or bev'erlIy.

[tesseraktik]

I am not so sure about the apostrophe in be'ver, is it there for sound or aesthetics? I don't think it is beaded to replace the a in beaver since the ea is a vowel blend, and besides while beaver may be part of the definition it is not part of the name Beverly. While many have used it to add a cool alien look to names, it is not really necessarily in all names.

For Beverly I'd drop probably the glottal stop too since *be'verlIy sounds more like be(t)-verly than the original English (at least the way I pronounce it... for me it's more like bev-er-ly anyway, which would be bev'erlIy.. at least that way the stop doesn't seem to break up the word as much since it starts the syllable). So I'd go with beverlIy or bev'erlIy.

I personally pronounce "Beverly" BE-ver-lee, but now that I try to look up the pronunciation it seems BEV-er-lee is the more common pronunciation.  Chalk it up to my being a crazy foreigner, I guess

As for be'ver/bever/bev'er, I was trying to translitare the original Old English word, which one source told me was bever.  However, upon closer inspect, it's actually beofor, and bever is just a corruption.

[QoghtlhIH'u']

Crazy foreigner?
As compared to ... ?
Terrans, Klingons, Americans, Fins... ?

I would go for the Klingon translation of furry animal with flat tail

[tesseraktik]

Crazy foreigner?
As compared to ... ?
Terrans, Klingons, Americans, Fins... ?

I would go for the Klingon translation of furry animal with flat tail

Foreign to all countries in which anybody would think of naming their daughter "Beverly"