Grammatical features / gender power & prefix derivation

[Richard Wordingham]

On Sun, 28 Feb 2021 19:54:36 -0800
Mark Davis ☕️ via CLDR-Users <cldr-users at unicode.org> wrote:
> We are not talking a prefix "taking" gender, but rather contributing
> to the gender of the result. For example, given the gender of the
> unit "meter", and the prefix "kilo-", what is the gender of the unit
> "kilometer"? (In the target language, of course!)

My point was that there is scope for "metre" to be feminine,
"kilometre" to be neuter and the noncy "megametre" to be feminine, with
the gender of the last two being determined by the compounding.
However, the order of the elements would probably stop that happening
in Pali, but the principle is there for the effect to turn up in some
other language.  For Pali, one would probably have to nativise
"kilometre" to something like _mattasahassa_ to be sure of getting
a neuter gender, but as a collective concept one could have a neuter
_sahassamatta_ for "km".  I'm not sure if those collective concepts can
take plurals.

Richard.