They may, of course, and generally can be understood kata to semaino menon, as a telegram with half the words left out may at the other end of the scale be understood. "A History of English Literature Elizabethan Literature" by George Saintsbury

Next one horseman rode ahead full gallop flying a kata, while some others followed closely behind. "An Explorer's Adventures in Tibet" by A. Henry Savage Landor

A little sand- grouse, known as kata by the Arabs, came whirring by. "The Flying Legion" by George Allan England