Re: Verbs from nouns

_Fota_ means also to take a picture. Even if _sparka_ is more common for
"to kick" than _fota_, the latter is in use, at least in some dialects.
_Fota_ ="to take a photo" is derived from _foto_="photo". I don't know if
there is a general rule to drop the o before adding the a, but the
combination oa is uncommon in swedish so I guess it is so.

.David


On Wed, 11 Jun 2003, BP Jonsson wrote:

> At 10:16 11.6.2003 +0200, David Pettersson wrote:
> >fot    foot     fota    to kick
>
> Actually:
>
> _spark_    "a kick"    _sparka_    "to kick"
>
> _fota_ means "to take a photo".  As an obsolescent derivative of
> _fot_ "foot" _fota_ means "to found a hypothesis (on something)".
>
> /BP 8^)
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