Re: noun forms of verbs

Ar 09:46 17/11/01 -0800, bhac nicole dobrowolski le scríobh chugam:

>ok suppose you take the verb "to sleep"... one way to turn it into a
>noun would be "sleeper" or "sleepers" referring to someone who sleeps
>but you could also use sleep as a noun as in "i didn't get any
>sleep"... there are other verbs that this works for as well but my
>question is: would it be valid to say that "food" is a noun form of
>the verb "to eat"?
Um, no. But I guess that `eatings', which is a noun anyway, could be
overloaded tenuously with that meaning like `the eatings' = `the food'.

K.

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