Grammatical features / gender power & prefix derivation

[Richard Wordingham]

On Mon, 1 Mar 2021 06:50:35 +0800
Kip Cole via CLDR-Users <cldr-users at unicode.org> wrote:

> 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”.

I'm not sure that it's relevant, but the suppletive form _kilo_ for
_kilogram_ often has a different gender to the longer form, e.g. neuter
rather than masculine in Slavonic languages, or optionally ki/vi class
in Swahili as opposed to 'n' class.  (Mark Rosenfelder found me the
Slavonic case.)

Richard.