Re: noun forms of verbs
| From: | Padraic Brown <agricola@...> |
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| Date: | Saturday, November 17, 2001, 21:12 |
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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"?
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> 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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