Verbnoun

In Celtic languages such as Welsh, a verb-noun (or verbnoun) is used to refer to the basic form of a verb and is the form usually listed in a dictionary (for example, in the 'Modern Welsh Dictionary'^[1]).

In Welsh for example, it is frequently used in conjunction with an auxiliary verb to form a periphrastic verb. It is similar in meaning to an English '-ing participle' or gerund, although it is often translated as a 'to-infinitive'.

See the article on verbal nouns for the term more generally used in grammatical descriptions. It is the verb form which functions as a noun, naming an "action or state without reference to who does it or when".

It is often formed by the addition of a suffix to a verb stem, though its form is sometimes the same as that of the verb stem.^[2] For example, in the Manx language, "etl" is the verb stem (and , as is usually the case in Celtic languages) corresponding to the English verb "fly". The verbnoun is formed by the addition of the suffix "-agh" to this stem, giving "etlagh".^[2]

References[]

^ Gareth King, ed. (2000). The Pocket Modern Welsh Dictionary. Oxford University Press. p. xxviii. ISBN 0-19-864531-7.
^ ^a ^b Draskau, Jennifer Kewley (2008). Practical Manx. Liverpool University Press. p. 123. ISBN 978-1-84631-131-4.

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[King-1] Gareth King, ed. (2000). The Pocket Modern Welsh Dictionary. Oxford University Press. p. xxviii. ISBN 0-19-864531-7.

[Draskau-2] Draskau, Jennifer Kewley (2008). Practical Manx. Liverpool University Press. p. 123. ISBN 978-1-84631-131-4.

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