Re: THEORY nouns and cases (was: Verbs derived from noun cases)

From: "Joe" <joe@...>

> Ans also in the Celtic languages, I believe.  Though they call it a
> 'noun-verb'.  It represents the infinitive, or something.
Celtic languages are among the few Indo-European languages to not have
infinitives, unless I'm mistaken.  There are so many instances in Irish of
things like _táim ag teacht_ "I'm coming", lit. "I'm at a coming". In
dictionaries, the citation form is the verbal noun instead of the
infinitive.

Farsi borrowed a lot of Arabic words and made them verbs by using the verb
_kardan_ "to do, make": _fekr mikonam_ "I'm thinking", lit. "a thought I'm
making".