Re: verbs = nouns?

Matthew Kehrt wrote:

>Does anyone know of any lang, preferrably a natlang, in which the same
>words serve as nouns and as verbs?  I know it can be done with
>adjectives and nouns, but are nouns and verbs equivalent in any
>system?

English and Chinese have been discussed.  Indonesian/Malay can do it to some
extent, especially in colloquial usage.
cinta 'love' n. or v.
hujan 'rain' or 'its's raining'

pikir 'think' or 'thought' -- berpikir, pikiran are more "correct" for the
verb/noun forms respectively.  And this gets into the very common BASE +
possessive usage:  pikirku (or pikir saya) lit. 'my thought' > my thinking >
I think....,  what I think is......  Hard to say whether pikir is
functioning as a noun or verb in this case.

kata  'to say', 'word'-- again, berkata/perkataan are "correct". katanya
lit. 'his/her word' is very common in written dialogue, for 'he/she said'.

A little further afield:  besar 'big', besarnya '(its) size'.

ObConlang:  Kash follows Indonesian with similar constructions, perhaps too
slavishly........