[Tlhingan-hol] KLBC: "Which" and uses of question words

[Robyn Stewart]

I wouldn't understand it at all. I would guess that the person had mispronounced nuQtaH: "the officer is annoying the child". 

My next guess would be that the writer/speaker was trying to use nuq to take the place of a verb, instead of a pronoun or a noun, and was trying to say, "what is the officer doing to the child." I would reject that usage. I'd call it creative and interesting, though. 

I can't make any meaning work by analogy with puq ghaHtaH yaS'e', 

- Qov

(On smartphone which autocorrected puq to pIq.  (Yes, complete with shifted I) I guess I don't write about kids much)

> On Dec 7, 2015, at 14:23, Anthony Appleyard <a.appleyard at btinternet.com> wrote:
> 
> For {puq nuqtaH yaS} I seem to see "The officer is_being or continues which child?", i.e. "which child grew up to become the officer?"
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