| OC |
| Hawaiian |
hoɁo- |
a very active former of causative/simulative derivatives, including 1. causation and transitivization ( ‘correct’ ‘to correct’), 2. pretense ( ‘deaf’ : ‘to feign deafness’), 3. simillarity ( ‘children’ : ‘childish’), 4. no meaning ( ‘to hurry’, ‘to hurry’), 5. unpredictable ( ‘good’ : ‘to congratulate’) |
| Nukuoro |
haga- |
causative prefix, cause to be, become, have, know ( ‘dead’ : ‘do as hard or fast as possible’, ‘to cry’ : ‘to play a musical instrument’) |
| Kapingamarangi |
haga- |
causative prefix: cause to; cause to have; provide a; allow to; teach how to; install as ( ‘to die’ : ‘to kill’, ‘to cry’ : ‘to make someone cry’ |
| Toqabaqita |
faɁa- |
usually derives causative verbs ( ‘die; dead’ : ‘administer anaesthetic to, put to sleep with anaesthetic’) |
| Lau |
faka- |
causative prefix, rarely found |
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fā- |
causative prefix which also makes transitive verbs from intransitive verbs, adjectives and nouns ( ‘to hear’ : ‘to tell’; ‘fear’ : ‘loathsome’; ‘to sing’ : ‘teach to sing’) |
| Tuvaluan |
faka- |
causative prefix with a range of meanings: 1. cause an action to occur or a state to result ( ‘learn’ : ‘teach’, ‘sleep’ : ‘put to sleep’), 2. to act a role ( ‘mother’ : ‘parent’s sister’, ‘European’ ‘act like a European’), cause to be like ( ‘turtle’ : ‘heap up food in the shape of a turtle’), 4. before statives to form transitive verbs ( ‘pierce’ : ‘pierced’, ‘pierce a nut for drinking’) |
| Anuta |
paka- |
causative prefix ( ‘die’ : ‘commit suicide’, ‘to cry, to moan’ : ‘to blow a conch shell or other type of whistle, horn, etc.’) |
| Rennellese |
haka- |
causative prefix (meanings are usually causative or transitive, but sometimes similitude) |
| Samoan |
faɁa- |
multifunctional prefix indicating, among other things, causation; faɁa-sāmoa ‘do things in the Samoan way’ |
| Fijian |
vaka- |
prefix; added to verbs it usually makes causatives; added to nouns it makes adjectives or adverbs ( ‘man’, ‘human; like a human being); added to adjectives it makes adverbs ( ‘good’, ‘well’); added to nouns it may indicate possession ( ‘house’ ‘having a house’); added to some intransitive verbs it makes intensives, frequentatives or continuatives |
| Niue |
faka- |
a very common prefix, usually causative, but with other meanings |
| Tongan |
faka- |
prefix denoting likeness, causation (causing or allowing to), supplying, having, etc. ( ‘die; dead’ : ‘causing death; deadly, poison, fatal’, ‘to cry’ : ‘having a doleful sound, sounding like a lament; to appeal to someone after one’s request has been rejected by someone else’) |
| Rarotongan |
aka- |
a causative prefix; to make to, to cause something to be done; by the addition of the prefix many nouns, adjectives and neuter verbs become active verbs |
| Maori |
whaka- |
causative prefix; combined with an intransitive verb, an adjective or participle to form an intransitive verb, it signifies a beginning of, or approach to, the action or condition indicated; combined with a noun to form an intransitive verb, it signifies the assumption of the character or form expressed by the noun; as a strict causative it may combine with a verb, adjective, participle, or noun to form a transitive verb |