English affixes in Hawaiian

Summary

Affix function number of borrowed affixes

Description

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’.