Re: confession: roots
| From: | Nik Taylor <fortytwo@...> |
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| Date: | Monday, May 7, 2001, 5:18 |
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Muke Tever wrote:
> And there's a question for the list, which I forgot if I've asked already. Is
> there a simple active verb in English meaning 'to be born' ?
Not that I know of, but I have heard constructions like "borning cry" to
mean "a child's first cry after being born", essentially treating "born"
as an active verb, but I don't know if that's an exception or a
preservation of an archaic verb.
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