| Affix function | number of borrowed affixes |
|---|---|
Information and examples are from Parker Jones (2009: 784).
1 derivational suffix
‑kona ‘sports event’ (from English marathon), e.g. hele‑kona ‘walk‑athon’ (from hele ‘go’)
A number of other English affixes in Hawaiian are not attested with native stems, i.e. heko‑kalame ‘hecto‑gram’, keni‑kalame ‘centi‑gram’, polai‑posapahate ‘poly‑phosphate’.