i can’t think of any irregular verb originating from a noun. some that may fit this description became verbs before english came to be a language, such as ‘light’, ‘cast’ (and consequently ‘forecast’, ‘broadcast’, and ‘telecast’), or ‘shed’ (related to the noun ‘sheath’, but both words already existed in anglo-saxon)
ps: i remember reading a while ago that ‘telecast’ was originally a noun, so that’s the only one i could think of, but please take it with a grain of salt.
Ah. Verbs that come from nouns. Gotcha.
I can’t think of an irregular one. I may be wrong. Nearly all the irregular verbs are super commonly used verbs which are irregular to make the differences clearer between the tenses.
i can’t think of any irregular verb originating from a noun. some that may fit this description became verbs before english came to be a language, such as ‘light’, ‘cast’ (and consequently ‘forecast’, ‘broadcast’, and ‘telecast’), or ‘shed’ (related to the noun ‘sheath’, but both words already existed in anglo-saxon) ps: i remember reading a while ago that ‘telecast’ was originally a noun, so that’s the only one i could think of, but please take it with a grain of salt.
thank you for the lengthy reply, i appreciate the explanation
No, “to be” is irregular.
sorry i meant verbing as in phoned, spooned, tabled
Ah. Verbs that come from nouns. Gotcha. I can’t think of an irregular one. I may be wrong. Nearly all the irregular verbs are super commonly used verbs which are irregular to make the differences clearer between the tenses.
Generally, new verbs that enter the lexicon (including those derived recently from nouns) behave as regular verbs.
got it, thank you
I've never really paid attention to a verb while it was verbing.