On Sat, Dec 2, 2017 at 12:59 PM, Aurélie Demonchaux <demonchaux.aurelie@gmail.com> wrote:
Hello all!

Today I was wondering if you could combine interrogation words such as nuq and 'Iv with type 5 noun suffixes, in particular -vaD and -mo' 

The TKD says;
 For {'Iv} <who?> and {nuq} <what?> the question word fits into the sentence in the position that would be occupied by the answer.

So, if the thing we want to ask is {what for; because of what; to whom; because of whom}, could we simply use {nuqvaD; nuqmo'; 'IvvaD; 'Ivmo'}?

For example:
nuqvaD lI' De'vam? = what is this information useful for?
'IvvaD taj nobpu' qama' ?= to whom did the prisoner give the knife?
nuqmo' jachtaH ghaH? = because of what is he shouting?
'Ivmo' tIwtaH ghaH? = because of whom is he acting emotionally?

I know some of the above could be rephrased easily in a "safer" grammatical way but I'm really interested in whether these alternative constructs would be grammatical and acceptable.

Thanks in advance!

I don't believe there are examples of {'Iv} or {nuq} being used with {-vaD} and {-mo'}. {​nuqDaq​} already provides a precedent for type 5 suffixes on question pronouns, though, and there's no rule explicitly preventing using other type 5s on {'Iv} and {nuq}. {nuqvaD} and {'Ivmo'} and so on all make clear sense semantically. You're probably fine to use them.

On Sat, Dec 2, 2017 at 4:10 PM, mayqel qunenoS <mihkoun@gmail.com> wrote:
Aurelie, on August 7 2017, I had asked exactly the same.

The title of that thread was "'Iv with type 5 noun suffixes".

Unfortunately, because now I'm only able to use my phone, I can't find the link to that thread, so if someone could post it, in order to help Aurelie, it would be great.

Here we go: http://lists.kli.org/pipermail/tlhingan-hol-kli.org/2017-August/004848.html (That's a link to voragh's reply with some relevant canon examples, with mayqel's original post quoted at the end.)