-ala

Borrowed from English -al, French -al, German -al, Italian -ale, Spanish -al, all ultimately from Latin -ālis.

-ala

1. Suffix used with a noun to make an adjective out of said noun; pertaining to, relating to, appropriate to.

   ‎amiko (“friend”) + ‎-ala → ‎amikala (“friendly, amicable”)

   ‎naciono (“nation”) + ‎-ala → ‎nacionala (“national”)

-ala

1. Suffix forming iterative, continuative or agentive verbs (after a voiced consonant, otherwise -əla).

• -əla

• Franz Boas, Helene Boas Yampolsky & Zellig S. Harris (1947), “Kwakiutl Grammar with a Glossary of the Suffixes”, in Transactions of the American Philosophical Society‎^[1], volume 37, number 3, page 306
• Daniel Frim (2024), Understanding Composite Text Structure: A Problem in the Comparative Study of Oral-Traditional Literature‎^[2], Harvard University Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, page 355