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Re: noun forms of verbs

From:Padraic Brown <agricola@...>
Date:Saturday, November 17, 2001, 21:12
Am 17.11.01, Nik Taylor yscrifef:

> 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. :-)
Don't yall have cheap eats where you're from? Certainly feed could stand in for "eat" in the question. Padraic. Bethez gwaz vaz ha leal.

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Nik Taylor <fortytwo@...>