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abstract relationships

Rick,
1) LS 20.0 gives lots of types of abstract relationships.  Most of them can already be expressed in Katanda.  There are six listed that I can't find a way to express:  analogy, proportionality, relatedness, compatibility, alternation, and enablement.  There are also two abstract relationships that Katanda can express that aren't included in the list (you DO call it a partial list):  contrast ("nanenda") and relevance ("catenda").  I also note that they are all based (so far) on words ending in "-tsa", "-ne", and "-te". 

2) Hyponymy is handled by "futsa", but its inverse, meaning "to subsume, to include" would be "zofutsa", which is not in the dictionary.

3) Would the analogy relationship be expressed using "tane"?  E.g., (using "ratsa" as the P/F-s verb meaning "to be analogous to") could we say:
"Ratsa A tane B C tane D = A compared to B is analogous to C compared to D = A is to B as C is to D"?

4) And finally, would the Katanda words for these relationships be just the middle voice ability/quality forms of the verbs, e.g., association=matendasni, equality=mabatsasni, readiness=macaytendasni?
Steven