noun prefix: #ka-támɁis ‘sweetness’ (cp. #ma-támɁis ‘sweet’)

Zorc 1969

formative of abstract nouns from adjectival bases: #ka-lanak ‘greasiness’ (cp. #ma-lanak ‘greasy’)

Bergh 1953

derivational prefix forming an abstract noun: #ka-dalem ‘depth’ (cp.

Reid 1976, Reid p.c.

affix added to adjectives to form nouns which mean ‘the state of being 〈so-and-so〉’: #ka-súbuɁ sadness’ (cp. #súbuɁ ‘sad’)

Wolff 1972

creates abstract nouns: #ka-tagu ‘manhood’ (cp. #tagu ‘man, human being’)

Lambrecht 1978

creates abstract nouns of quality: #ka-vayah ‘redness’ (cp. #vayah ‘red color’)

Yamada 1976

formative added to adjectives to make them into abstract nouns: #ha-tsara ‘goodness’ (cp. #tsara ‘good’)

Richardson 1885

marker of abstract nouns: #ko-loben ‘size, magnitude’ (cp. #mo-loben ‘large’)

Dunnebier 1951

deverbal noun denoting the abstraction of the verbal quality’: #ka-tehi ‘fear’ (cp. #tehi ‘afraid’); #ka-ghosa ‘strength, hardness, health’ (cp. #ghosa ‘strong, hard’)

van den Berg 1996

formative for abstract nouns: #kə-bəleɁ ‘size, magnitude’ (cp. #bəleɁ ‘big, large’); #kə-kodeɁ ‘smallness’ (cp. #kodeɁ ‘small’)

Goris 1938

formative for deverbal nouns: #ka-bari ‘number, quantity’ (cp. #bari ‘be many, much); #ka-pii ‘illness’ (cp #ma-pii ‘ill’)

Anceaux 1987

active verbal particle: #ka-tayal ‘work as an activity not necessarily in process’ (cp. #ma-tayal ‘refers to the activity of working’)

Fey 1986