Re: noun forms of verbs

Nik Taylor wrote:
>nicole dobrowolski wrote:
> > my question is: would it be valid to say that "food" is a noun form of
> > the verb "to eat"?
>
>In English, if I understand your question correctly, I'd say no, because
>"food" and "eat" are unrelated words.  However, you certainly could use
>the verb "eat" to mean "food" in a language that allows that.  English
>does that with the related "drink", after all.  :-)
The noun "food" is however related to the verb "to feed". It's, IMHO, about
as true to call "food" the noun form of "to feed" as to call "sleep" the
noun form of "to sleep".

                                                          Andreas

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