Grammatical features / gender power & prefix derivation

[Mark Davis ☕️]

It could be a constant gender, like masculine.

Note that if we run into languages that need more "interesting rules", then
we would be expanding the structure.

On Sun, Feb 28, 2021, 14:55 Kip Cole via CLDR-Users <cldr-users at unicode.org>
wrote:

> My understanding of TR35 section 16.1 is that when deriving the
> grammatical gender of a “power” (like “square meter”) or “prefix” (like
> “milligram”) the basic operation is to strip the power and/or prefix and
> derive the gender of the base unit (“meter” in this case).
>
> If my understanding is correct, then looking at the Section 16.1:
>
> <deriveCompound feature="gender" structure="power" value="0"/> <!-- gender(square-meter) ←  gender(meter) -->
> <deriveCompound feature="gender" structure="prefix" value="0"/> <!-- gender(kilometer) ←  gender(meter)-->
>
> Is there any circumstance whereby “value” could be anything other than “0”
> ? Is there any circumstance where the power or prefix themselves would form
> part of the gender determination? (Based on the above I assume not, but
> confirmation would be helpful).  Looking at the locales for “root”, “de”
> and “fr”, all of them have “value=0” for “power” and “prefix”.
>
> Many thanks, —Kip
>
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