Re: noun forms of verbs

Well, i think food is the noun form of feed -- which can also be a noun
without change but then it isn't human food.  Maybe the noun form of eat is
edibles.

Adam

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-------Suzanne Knutzen




>From: Yoon Ha Lee <yl112@...>
>Reply-To: Constructed Languages List <CONLANG@...>
>To: CONLANG@LISTSERV.BROWN.EDU
>Subject: Re: noun forms of verbs
>Date: Sat, 17 Nov 2001 10:22:52 -0800
>
>On Saturday, November 17, 2001, at 09:46 , nicole dobrowolski wrote:
>
>>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"?
>
>In English they sure don't look related to me, though as Nik Taylor
>pointed out you could certainly *create* such words.  The only noun forms
>I can think of offhand is "eatery" and maybe "eaters."
>
>Yoon Ha Lee [requiescat@cityofveils.com]
>http://pegasus.cityofveils.com
>
>It's bad luck to be superstitious.

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