Re: noun forms of verbs

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."

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