What is the exact technical word to describe the relationship between a verb and noun with the same root?












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I'm editing a paper and the sentence I need to fix is, "Thus, the word and its_________ appear seven times in the chapter."



The word in question is a Hebrew word meaning to "rejoice" but the noun form, with an almost identical root meaning "gladness," is part of the seven occurrences. I thought of using "cognate" but that seems to be emphasizing a word "descended from the same language" which is not the emphasis here. I need a word that describes the relationship between a verb and its noun form, e.g., "to fly" and "flight."










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    I'm editing a paper and the sentence I need to fix is, "Thus, the word and its_________ appear seven times in the chapter."



    The word in question is a Hebrew word meaning to "rejoice" but the noun form, with an almost identical root meaning "gladness," is part of the seven occurrences. I thought of using "cognate" but that seems to be emphasizing a word "descended from the same language" which is not the emphasis here. I need a word that describes the relationship between a verb and its noun form, e.g., "to fly" and "flight."










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      I'm editing a paper and the sentence I need to fix is, "Thus, the word and its_________ appear seven times in the chapter."



      The word in question is a Hebrew word meaning to "rejoice" but the noun form, with an almost identical root meaning "gladness," is part of the seven occurrences. I thought of using "cognate" but that seems to be emphasizing a word "descended from the same language" which is not the emphasis here. I need a word that describes the relationship between a verb and its noun form, e.g., "to fly" and "flight."










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      I'm editing a paper and the sentence I need to fix is, "Thus, the word and its_________ appear seven times in the chapter."



      The word in question is a Hebrew word meaning to "rejoice" but the noun form, with an almost identical root meaning "gladness," is part of the seven occurrences. I thought of using "cognate" but that seems to be emphasizing a word "descended from the same language" which is not the emphasis here. I need a word that describes the relationship between a verb and its noun form, e.g., "to fly" and "flight."







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          Derivative:




          (specialized language) a form of something, such as a word, made or developed from another form:




          • "Detestable" is a derivative of "detest”.




          (Cambridge Dictionary)






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            +1 This. Here's a reasonably authoritative linguistics site.
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            This isn't a direct answer to the question asked - as I read it, the word described by the blank isn't actually a derivative of the other, but rather both words are derived from the same root. OP: if you use "derivative", keep in mind that it implies an order.
            – SirTechSpec
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          A cognate accusative/object is a figure of speech in which the verb and object are etymologically related:




          He slept a troubled sleep.
          Dance a dance.
          Die a peaceful death.




          So there shouldn't be any problem writing:




          verb x and its cognate noun




          Since you're dealing with a language based on consonantal roots, “noun [derived] from the same root” would also work.



          The problem with derivation alone is that it assumes that, say, the verb is historically prior to the noun, which may or may not have been the case.






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          • Interesting. But are those terms only used within a sentence structure? Notice how every example was in a sentence (at the website you provided), rather than words and their cognates in a chart. Your point about derivatives as historically prior is helpful, but I still think (though I could be wrong) that the common understanding of "cognate" is relationship across languages.
            – Joseph O.
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          You could use: nominal form, nounal form or, as you yourself suggest, noun form.



          These three phrases have the required emphasis on a related-but-different-parts-of-speech link between the words, rather than one of descent or derivation.



          Merriam-Webster give the following definitions:




          nominal adjective ...



          of, relating to, or being a noun or a word or expression taking a noun construction





          nounal adjective ...



          of, relating to, or of the
          nature, function, or quality of a noun




          And noun can itself be used adjectivally, as it is in the linguistics terms noun phrase and noun class.





          A cursory glace through Google Books search results suggests nominal form gets extensive use in linguistics texts. Two relevant examples follow:




          Early Indo-European languages present a wide range of nominal constructions that convey verbal action and combine a noun and a nominal form of the verb...



          Archaic Syntax in Indo-European: The Spread of Transitivity in Latin, Brigitte Bauer (2011)





          The nominal form of a transitive verb that has only the prefix mang... does not differ from the stem-word, or the word to be regarded as such...



          A Grammar of Toba Batak, Herman Neubronner van der van der Tuuk (2013)




          Nounal form seems to be seen more in non-linguistics texts, though it is also used in linguistics too; it may be more dated as a phrase.




          Similarly, "knowledge" is a nounal form rooted in verbs: OE "cnawan" meaning "to know," and OE "-cennan" meaning "To make known."



          Libri, vol. 38, Jean Anker (1988)





          In these the Latin gerund is reproduced in 17 cases by a nounal form; 10 cases by a participle; 2 cases by an infinitive. The Gospels have little to teach: only one Latin gerund in the ablative has an object; this construction is paraphrased.



          Publications of the Modern Language Association of America (1900)




          Noun form seems to get the most general use. It's favoured in ESL circles and is also commonly used in linguistics as well.




          Noun form of verb (gerund)



          [For example] Rotting: When looking after food, it is important to minimise rotting.



          Advanced Grammar: For Academic Writing, Richard Stevenson (2010)





          You pronounce the noun form of affect differently from the verb form. With the noun form, you stress the first syllable, and the a sounds like it would if you were saying “at.”



          Grammar Essentials For Dummies, Geraldine Woods (2010)





          Even though the intrusion error in (11) is also homophonous with the target verb form, it is not itself a verb form but a noun form.



          Morphological Structure in Language Processing, R. Harald Baayen, ‎Robert Schreuder (2011)




          According to Google Ngram viewer, noun form also seems to be the most common of the three, with nominal form also well established and nounal form comparatively rare:
          Ngrams comparing "noun form", "nominal form", "nounal form"



          Both noun form and nominal form seem current and readily understandable, though neither is specific in describing the verb-noun relationship you require - they are, of course, more general phrases with other uses. However, your context makes the intended meaning very clear.



          For what it's worth, to my mind, noun form is the nicest - it's simple and straightforward. It's also exactly the words that came to your own mind when trying to find a term!



          Absent a more specific term for Semitic languages in general or Hebrew in particular (ask on Linguistics, perhaps, if that's what you want), I'd go for noun form.



          To clarify the link you're trying to make, I'd also use verb rather than word, and state which noun form you are referring to, as there are possibly several different nouns related to the verb. Thus, your sentence would read:




          Thus, the verb and its noun form, X, appear seven times in the chapter.






          I also doubt there is a specific technical term for what you're asking for because it's not that well defined an idea, as you can see when you generalise it beyond the case at hand.



          I'm not sure that the relationship between fly and flight is fundamentally the same as that between enjoy and joy, gladden and gladness, or fish (the verb) and fish (the noun) - or fishing, for that matter.



          Also with enjoy, for instance, putting enjoyment and joy aside, we can conjugate two verbal nouns, enjoying and to enjoy, the to-infinitive form and the gerund: while it is Hebrew rather than English in your example, I assume there are equivalent regularly-formed verbal nouns of some sort: should they be be excluded from the term you seek? (Apologies for the laborious explanation! I'm just trying to illustrate that it's not a simple, straightforward category you seek a label for, at least as I see it.)






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            I minored in linguistics and I'm not aware of a single word that means "a word that shares a root with another word".



            As I read the question, neither of the two words you want to describe is itself the root (if Hebrew roots work like Arabic roots and they aren't words you can say by themselves, this makes sense). So if you want to use "derivative", you would have to get a little wordier and say "Thus, these two derivatives of [root] appear seven times in the chapter."



            Or just take the casual approach and say "thus, rejoice and the related word joy appear seven times", if the exact relationship between the two isn't important. I'm not sure "related word" has a formal definition as a phrase, but it sounds perfectly natural to me just based on the meaning of "related" and "word" put together.



            I also like tmgr's suggestion:




            Thus, the verb and its noun form, X, appear seven times in the chapter.







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            • That is helpful. My Hebrew is limited but I do remember the expression "triliteral root" as applying to the three consonants most Hebrew words are built from. Because the verb "samach" is triliteral and the noun "simchah" had a fourth consonant I assumed that the noun was derivative of the verb. That could be a wrong assumption. Perhaps someone with a better grasp of Semitic languages can help us out.
              – Joseph O.
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            • +1 Taking a step back and going to the root of the words (and the problem!) is a neat way to deal with this. Keeping it very general also works well too.
              – tmgr
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            You have the "stem", "root", or "morpheme", or "radical", partly depending on what area of linguistics you are in [radix= latin word for (plant) root]. From one word you get a "derivative" word, and its reverse is the "primitive" form.



            https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Word_stem



            But what you are considering are inflections of a stem, https://quirkycase.wordpress.com/2013/04/17/linguistics-for-laypeople-inflection-vs-derivation/ .






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              deverbal noun

              (e.g. destruction, container, growth and adjustment are deverbal nouns that derive from destroy, contain grow and adjust respectively)

              (also, deverbal nouns are a specific subclass of derivatives, a term correctly suggested by @user240918)



              Some useful references:

              - Wikipedia article (general overview)

              - Chomsky, Noam (1970) Remarks on Nominalization (classic discussion of the topic in Generative Grammar)

              - Gurevich, Olga et al. (2008) Deverbal Nouns in Knowledge Representation (state-of-the art computational treatment of deverbal nouns)

              - Grimshaw, Jane (1990) Argument Structure (chapter 4 on arguments of "event nominals")

              - Marantz, Alex (1990) No Escape from Syntax: Don't Try Morphological Analysis in the Privacy of Your Own Lexicon (on deverbal nouns in a framework called "Distributed Morphology")






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                Derivative:




                (specialized language) a form of something, such as a word, made or developed from another form:




                • "Detestable" is a derivative of "detest”.




                (Cambridge Dictionary)






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                  +1 This. Here's a reasonably authoritative linguistics site.
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                  This isn't a direct answer to the question asked - as I read it, the word described by the blank isn't actually a derivative of the other, but rather both words are derived from the same root. OP: if you use "derivative", keep in mind that it implies an order.
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                Derivative:




                (specialized language) a form of something, such as a word, made or developed from another form:




                • "Detestable" is a derivative of "detest”.




                (Cambridge Dictionary)






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                  +1 This. Here's a reasonably authoritative linguistics site.
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                  This isn't a direct answer to the question asked - as I read it, the word described by the blank isn't actually a derivative of the other, but rather both words are derived from the same root. OP: if you use "derivative", keep in mind that it implies an order.
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                Derivative:




                (specialized language) a form of something, such as a word, made or developed from another form:




                • "Detestable" is a derivative of "detest”.




                (Cambridge Dictionary)






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                Derivative:




                (specialized language) a form of something, such as a word, made or developed from another form:




                • "Detestable" is a derivative of "detest”.




                (Cambridge Dictionary)







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                  +1 This. Here's a reasonably authoritative linguistics site.
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                  This isn't a direct answer to the question asked - as I read it, the word described by the blank isn't actually a derivative of the other, but rather both words are derived from the same root. OP: if you use "derivative", keep in mind that it implies an order.
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                  +1 This. Here's a reasonably authoritative linguistics site.
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                  This isn't a direct answer to the question asked - as I read it, the word described by the blank isn't actually a derivative of the other, but rather both words are derived from the same root. OP: if you use "derivative", keep in mind that it implies an order.
                  – SirTechSpec
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                +1 This. Here's a reasonably authoritative linguistics site.
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                +1 This. Here's a reasonably authoritative linguistics site.
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                This isn't a direct answer to the question asked - as I read it, the word described by the blank isn't actually a derivative of the other, but rather both words are derived from the same root. OP: if you use "derivative", keep in mind that it implies an order.
                – SirTechSpec
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                This isn't a direct answer to the question asked - as I read it, the word described by the blank isn't actually a derivative of the other, but rather both words are derived from the same root. OP: if you use "derivative", keep in mind that it implies an order.
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                A cognate accusative/object is a figure of speech in which the verb and object are etymologically related:




                He slept a troubled sleep.
                Dance a dance.
                Die a peaceful death.




                So there shouldn't be any problem writing:




                verb x and its cognate noun




                Since you're dealing with a language based on consonantal roots, “noun [derived] from the same root” would also work.



                The problem with derivation alone is that it assumes that, say, the verb is historically prior to the noun, which may or may not have been the case.






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                • Interesting. But are those terms only used within a sentence structure? Notice how every example was in a sentence (at the website you provided), rather than words and their cognates in a chart. Your point about derivatives as historically prior is helpful, but I still think (though I could be wrong) that the common understanding of "cognate" is relationship across languages.
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                A cognate accusative/object is a figure of speech in which the verb and object are etymologically related:




                He slept a troubled sleep.
                Dance a dance.
                Die a peaceful death.




                So there shouldn't be any problem writing:




                verb x and its cognate noun




                Since you're dealing with a language based on consonantal roots, “noun [derived] from the same root” would also work.



                The problem with derivation alone is that it assumes that, say, the verb is historically prior to the noun, which may or may not have been the case.






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                • Interesting. But are those terms only used within a sentence structure? Notice how every example was in a sentence (at the website you provided), rather than words and their cognates in a chart. Your point about derivatives as historically prior is helpful, but I still think (though I could be wrong) that the common understanding of "cognate" is relationship across languages.
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                  Dec 17 at 19:37














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                A cognate accusative/object is a figure of speech in which the verb and object are etymologically related:




                He slept a troubled sleep.
                Dance a dance.
                Die a peaceful death.




                So there shouldn't be any problem writing:




                verb x and its cognate noun




                Since you're dealing with a language based on consonantal roots, “noun [derived] from the same root” would also work.



                The problem with derivation alone is that it assumes that, say, the verb is historically prior to the noun, which may or may not have been the case.






                share|improve this answer












                A cognate accusative/object is a figure of speech in which the verb and object are etymologically related:




                He slept a troubled sleep.
                Dance a dance.
                Die a peaceful death.




                So there shouldn't be any problem writing:




                verb x and its cognate noun




                Since you're dealing with a language based on consonantal roots, “noun [derived] from the same root” would also work.



                The problem with derivation alone is that it assumes that, say, the verb is historically prior to the noun, which may or may not have been the case.







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                • Interesting. But are those terms only used within a sentence structure? Notice how every example was in a sentence (at the website you provided), rather than words and their cognates in a chart. Your point about derivatives as historically prior is helpful, but I still think (though I could be wrong) that the common understanding of "cognate" is relationship across languages.
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                • Interesting. But are those terms only used within a sentence structure? Notice how every example was in a sentence (at the website you provided), rather than words and their cognates in a chart. Your point about derivatives as historically prior is helpful, but I still think (though I could be wrong) that the common understanding of "cognate" is relationship across languages.
                  – Joseph O.
                  Dec 17 at 19:37
















                Interesting. But are those terms only used within a sentence structure? Notice how every example was in a sentence (at the website you provided), rather than words and their cognates in a chart. Your point about derivatives as historically prior is helpful, but I still think (though I could be wrong) that the common understanding of "cognate" is relationship across languages.
                – Joseph O.
                Dec 17 at 19:37




                Interesting. But are those terms only used within a sentence structure? Notice how every example was in a sentence (at the website you provided), rather than words and their cognates in a chart. Your point about derivatives as historically prior is helpful, but I still think (though I could be wrong) that the common understanding of "cognate" is relationship across languages.
                – Joseph O.
                Dec 17 at 19:37











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                You could use: nominal form, nounal form or, as you yourself suggest, noun form.



                These three phrases have the required emphasis on a related-but-different-parts-of-speech link between the words, rather than one of descent or derivation.



                Merriam-Webster give the following definitions:




                nominal adjective ...



                of, relating to, or being a noun or a word or expression taking a noun construction





                nounal adjective ...



                of, relating to, or of the
                nature, function, or quality of a noun




                And noun can itself be used adjectivally, as it is in the linguistics terms noun phrase and noun class.





                A cursory glace through Google Books search results suggests nominal form gets extensive use in linguistics texts. Two relevant examples follow:




                Early Indo-European languages present a wide range of nominal constructions that convey verbal action and combine a noun and a nominal form of the verb...



                Archaic Syntax in Indo-European: The Spread of Transitivity in Latin, Brigitte Bauer (2011)





                The nominal form of a transitive verb that has only the prefix mang... does not differ from the stem-word, or the word to be regarded as such...



                A Grammar of Toba Batak, Herman Neubronner van der van der Tuuk (2013)




                Nounal form seems to be seen more in non-linguistics texts, though it is also used in linguistics too; it may be more dated as a phrase.




                Similarly, "knowledge" is a nounal form rooted in verbs: OE "cnawan" meaning "to know," and OE "-cennan" meaning "To make known."



                Libri, vol. 38, Jean Anker (1988)





                In these the Latin gerund is reproduced in 17 cases by a nounal form; 10 cases by a participle; 2 cases by an infinitive. The Gospels have little to teach: only one Latin gerund in the ablative has an object; this construction is paraphrased.



                Publications of the Modern Language Association of America (1900)




                Noun form seems to get the most general use. It's favoured in ESL circles and is also commonly used in linguistics as well.




                Noun form of verb (gerund)



                [For example] Rotting: When looking after food, it is important to minimise rotting.



                Advanced Grammar: For Academic Writing, Richard Stevenson (2010)





                You pronounce the noun form of affect differently from the verb form. With the noun form, you stress the first syllable, and the a sounds like it would if you were saying “at.”



                Grammar Essentials For Dummies, Geraldine Woods (2010)





                Even though the intrusion error in (11) is also homophonous with the target verb form, it is not itself a verb form but a noun form.



                Morphological Structure in Language Processing, R. Harald Baayen, ‎Robert Schreuder (2011)




                According to Google Ngram viewer, noun form also seems to be the most common of the three, with nominal form also well established and nounal form comparatively rare:
                Ngrams comparing "noun form", "nominal form", "nounal form"



                Both noun form and nominal form seem current and readily understandable, though neither is specific in describing the verb-noun relationship you require - they are, of course, more general phrases with other uses. However, your context makes the intended meaning very clear.



                For what it's worth, to my mind, noun form is the nicest - it's simple and straightforward. It's also exactly the words that came to your own mind when trying to find a term!



                Absent a more specific term for Semitic languages in general or Hebrew in particular (ask on Linguistics, perhaps, if that's what you want), I'd go for noun form.



                To clarify the link you're trying to make, I'd also use verb rather than word, and state which noun form you are referring to, as there are possibly several different nouns related to the verb. Thus, your sentence would read:




                Thus, the verb and its noun form, X, appear seven times in the chapter.






                I also doubt there is a specific technical term for what you're asking for because it's not that well defined an idea, as you can see when you generalise it beyond the case at hand.



                I'm not sure that the relationship between fly and flight is fundamentally the same as that between enjoy and joy, gladden and gladness, or fish (the verb) and fish (the noun) - or fishing, for that matter.



                Also with enjoy, for instance, putting enjoyment and joy aside, we can conjugate two verbal nouns, enjoying and to enjoy, the to-infinitive form and the gerund: while it is Hebrew rather than English in your example, I assume there are equivalent regularly-formed verbal nouns of some sort: should they be be excluded from the term you seek? (Apologies for the laborious explanation! I'm just trying to illustrate that it's not a simple, straightforward category you seek a label for, at least as I see it.)






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                  You could use: nominal form, nounal form or, as you yourself suggest, noun form.



                  These three phrases have the required emphasis on a related-but-different-parts-of-speech link between the words, rather than one of descent or derivation.



                  Merriam-Webster give the following definitions:




                  nominal adjective ...



                  of, relating to, or being a noun or a word or expression taking a noun construction





                  nounal adjective ...



                  of, relating to, or of the
                  nature, function, or quality of a noun




                  And noun can itself be used adjectivally, as it is in the linguistics terms noun phrase and noun class.





                  A cursory glace through Google Books search results suggests nominal form gets extensive use in linguistics texts. Two relevant examples follow:




                  Early Indo-European languages present a wide range of nominal constructions that convey verbal action and combine a noun and a nominal form of the verb...



                  Archaic Syntax in Indo-European: The Spread of Transitivity in Latin, Brigitte Bauer (2011)





                  The nominal form of a transitive verb that has only the prefix mang... does not differ from the stem-word, or the word to be regarded as such...



                  A Grammar of Toba Batak, Herman Neubronner van der van der Tuuk (2013)




                  Nounal form seems to be seen more in non-linguistics texts, though it is also used in linguistics too; it may be more dated as a phrase.




                  Similarly, "knowledge" is a nounal form rooted in verbs: OE "cnawan" meaning "to know," and OE "-cennan" meaning "To make known."



                  Libri, vol. 38, Jean Anker (1988)





                  In these the Latin gerund is reproduced in 17 cases by a nounal form; 10 cases by a participle; 2 cases by an infinitive. The Gospels have little to teach: only one Latin gerund in the ablative has an object; this construction is paraphrased.



                  Publications of the Modern Language Association of America (1900)




                  Noun form seems to get the most general use. It's favoured in ESL circles and is also commonly used in linguistics as well.




                  Noun form of verb (gerund)



                  [For example] Rotting: When looking after food, it is important to minimise rotting.



                  Advanced Grammar: For Academic Writing, Richard Stevenson (2010)





                  You pronounce the noun form of affect differently from the verb form. With the noun form, you stress the first syllable, and the a sounds like it would if you were saying “at.”



                  Grammar Essentials For Dummies, Geraldine Woods (2010)





                  Even though the intrusion error in (11) is also homophonous with the target verb form, it is not itself a verb form but a noun form.



                  Morphological Structure in Language Processing, R. Harald Baayen, ‎Robert Schreuder (2011)




                  According to Google Ngram viewer, noun form also seems to be the most common of the three, with nominal form also well established and nounal form comparatively rare:
                  Ngrams comparing "noun form", "nominal form", "nounal form"



                  Both noun form and nominal form seem current and readily understandable, though neither is specific in describing the verb-noun relationship you require - they are, of course, more general phrases with other uses. However, your context makes the intended meaning very clear.



                  For what it's worth, to my mind, noun form is the nicest - it's simple and straightforward. It's also exactly the words that came to your own mind when trying to find a term!



                  Absent a more specific term for Semitic languages in general or Hebrew in particular (ask on Linguistics, perhaps, if that's what you want), I'd go for noun form.



                  To clarify the link you're trying to make, I'd also use verb rather than word, and state which noun form you are referring to, as there are possibly several different nouns related to the verb. Thus, your sentence would read:




                  Thus, the verb and its noun form, X, appear seven times in the chapter.






                  I also doubt there is a specific technical term for what you're asking for because it's not that well defined an idea, as you can see when you generalise it beyond the case at hand.



                  I'm not sure that the relationship between fly and flight is fundamentally the same as that between enjoy and joy, gladden and gladness, or fish (the verb) and fish (the noun) - or fishing, for that matter.



                  Also with enjoy, for instance, putting enjoyment and joy aside, we can conjugate two verbal nouns, enjoying and to enjoy, the to-infinitive form and the gerund: while it is Hebrew rather than English in your example, I assume there are equivalent regularly-formed verbal nouns of some sort: should they be be excluded from the term you seek? (Apologies for the laborious explanation! I'm just trying to illustrate that it's not a simple, straightforward category you seek a label for, at least as I see it.)






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                    You could use: nominal form, nounal form or, as you yourself suggest, noun form.



                    These three phrases have the required emphasis on a related-but-different-parts-of-speech link between the words, rather than one of descent or derivation.



                    Merriam-Webster give the following definitions:




                    nominal adjective ...



                    of, relating to, or being a noun or a word or expression taking a noun construction





                    nounal adjective ...



                    of, relating to, or of the
                    nature, function, or quality of a noun




                    And noun can itself be used adjectivally, as it is in the linguistics terms noun phrase and noun class.





                    A cursory glace through Google Books search results suggests nominal form gets extensive use in linguistics texts. Two relevant examples follow:




                    Early Indo-European languages present a wide range of nominal constructions that convey verbal action and combine a noun and a nominal form of the verb...



                    Archaic Syntax in Indo-European: The Spread of Transitivity in Latin, Brigitte Bauer (2011)





                    The nominal form of a transitive verb that has only the prefix mang... does not differ from the stem-word, or the word to be regarded as such...



                    A Grammar of Toba Batak, Herman Neubronner van der van der Tuuk (2013)




                    Nounal form seems to be seen more in non-linguistics texts, though it is also used in linguistics too; it may be more dated as a phrase.




                    Similarly, "knowledge" is a nounal form rooted in verbs: OE "cnawan" meaning "to know," and OE "-cennan" meaning "To make known."



                    Libri, vol. 38, Jean Anker (1988)





                    In these the Latin gerund is reproduced in 17 cases by a nounal form; 10 cases by a participle; 2 cases by an infinitive. The Gospels have little to teach: only one Latin gerund in the ablative has an object; this construction is paraphrased.



                    Publications of the Modern Language Association of America (1900)




                    Noun form seems to get the most general use. It's favoured in ESL circles and is also commonly used in linguistics as well.




                    Noun form of verb (gerund)



                    [For example] Rotting: When looking after food, it is important to minimise rotting.



                    Advanced Grammar: For Academic Writing, Richard Stevenson (2010)





                    You pronounce the noun form of affect differently from the verb form. With the noun form, you stress the first syllable, and the a sounds like it would if you were saying “at.”



                    Grammar Essentials For Dummies, Geraldine Woods (2010)





                    Even though the intrusion error in (11) is also homophonous with the target verb form, it is not itself a verb form but a noun form.



                    Morphological Structure in Language Processing, R. Harald Baayen, ‎Robert Schreuder (2011)




                    According to Google Ngram viewer, noun form also seems to be the most common of the three, with nominal form also well established and nounal form comparatively rare:
                    Ngrams comparing "noun form", "nominal form", "nounal form"



                    Both noun form and nominal form seem current and readily understandable, though neither is specific in describing the verb-noun relationship you require - they are, of course, more general phrases with other uses. However, your context makes the intended meaning very clear.



                    For what it's worth, to my mind, noun form is the nicest - it's simple and straightforward. It's also exactly the words that came to your own mind when trying to find a term!



                    Absent a more specific term for Semitic languages in general or Hebrew in particular (ask on Linguistics, perhaps, if that's what you want), I'd go for noun form.



                    To clarify the link you're trying to make, I'd also use verb rather than word, and state which noun form you are referring to, as there are possibly several different nouns related to the verb. Thus, your sentence would read:




                    Thus, the verb and its noun form, X, appear seven times in the chapter.






                    I also doubt there is a specific technical term for what you're asking for because it's not that well defined an idea, as you can see when you generalise it beyond the case at hand.



                    I'm not sure that the relationship between fly and flight is fundamentally the same as that between enjoy and joy, gladden and gladness, or fish (the verb) and fish (the noun) - or fishing, for that matter.



                    Also with enjoy, for instance, putting enjoyment and joy aside, we can conjugate two verbal nouns, enjoying and to enjoy, the to-infinitive form and the gerund: while it is Hebrew rather than English in your example, I assume there are equivalent regularly-formed verbal nouns of some sort: should they be be excluded from the term you seek? (Apologies for the laborious explanation! I'm just trying to illustrate that it's not a simple, straightforward category you seek a label for, at least as I see it.)






                    share|improve this answer














                    You could use: nominal form, nounal form or, as you yourself suggest, noun form.



                    These three phrases have the required emphasis on a related-but-different-parts-of-speech link between the words, rather than one of descent or derivation.



                    Merriam-Webster give the following definitions:




                    nominal adjective ...



                    of, relating to, or being a noun or a word or expression taking a noun construction





                    nounal adjective ...



                    of, relating to, or of the
                    nature, function, or quality of a noun




                    And noun can itself be used adjectivally, as it is in the linguistics terms noun phrase and noun class.





                    A cursory glace through Google Books search results suggests nominal form gets extensive use in linguistics texts. Two relevant examples follow:




                    Early Indo-European languages present a wide range of nominal constructions that convey verbal action and combine a noun and a nominal form of the verb...



                    Archaic Syntax in Indo-European: The Spread of Transitivity in Latin, Brigitte Bauer (2011)





                    The nominal form of a transitive verb that has only the prefix mang... does not differ from the stem-word, or the word to be regarded as such...



                    A Grammar of Toba Batak, Herman Neubronner van der van der Tuuk (2013)




                    Nounal form seems to be seen more in non-linguistics texts, though it is also used in linguistics too; it may be more dated as a phrase.




                    Similarly, "knowledge" is a nounal form rooted in verbs: OE "cnawan" meaning "to know," and OE "-cennan" meaning "To make known."



                    Libri, vol. 38, Jean Anker (1988)





                    In these the Latin gerund is reproduced in 17 cases by a nounal form; 10 cases by a participle; 2 cases by an infinitive. The Gospels have little to teach: only one Latin gerund in the ablative has an object; this construction is paraphrased.



                    Publications of the Modern Language Association of America (1900)




                    Noun form seems to get the most general use. It's favoured in ESL circles and is also commonly used in linguistics as well.




                    Noun form of verb (gerund)



                    [For example] Rotting: When looking after food, it is important to minimise rotting.



                    Advanced Grammar: For Academic Writing, Richard Stevenson (2010)





                    You pronounce the noun form of affect differently from the verb form. With the noun form, you stress the first syllable, and the a sounds like it would if you were saying “at.”



                    Grammar Essentials For Dummies, Geraldine Woods (2010)





                    Even though the intrusion error in (11) is also homophonous with the target verb form, it is not itself a verb form but a noun form.



                    Morphological Structure in Language Processing, R. Harald Baayen, ‎Robert Schreuder (2011)




                    According to Google Ngram viewer, noun form also seems to be the most common of the three, with nominal form also well established and nounal form comparatively rare:
                    Ngrams comparing "noun form", "nominal form", "nounal form"



                    Both noun form and nominal form seem current and readily understandable, though neither is specific in describing the verb-noun relationship you require - they are, of course, more general phrases with other uses. However, your context makes the intended meaning very clear.



                    For what it's worth, to my mind, noun form is the nicest - it's simple and straightforward. It's also exactly the words that came to your own mind when trying to find a term!



                    Absent a more specific term for Semitic languages in general or Hebrew in particular (ask on Linguistics, perhaps, if that's what you want), I'd go for noun form.



                    To clarify the link you're trying to make, I'd also use verb rather than word, and state which noun form you are referring to, as there are possibly several different nouns related to the verb. Thus, your sentence would read:




                    Thus, the verb and its noun form, X, appear seven times in the chapter.






                    I also doubt there is a specific technical term for what you're asking for because it's not that well defined an idea, as you can see when you generalise it beyond the case at hand.



                    I'm not sure that the relationship between fly and flight is fundamentally the same as that between enjoy and joy, gladden and gladness, or fish (the verb) and fish (the noun) - or fishing, for that matter.



                    Also with enjoy, for instance, putting enjoyment and joy aside, we can conjugate two verbal nouns, enjoying and to enjoy, the to-infinitive form and the gerund: while it is Hebrew rather than English in your example, I assume there are equivalent regularly-formed verbal nouns of some sort: should they be be excluded from the term you seek? (Apologies for the laborious explanation! I'm just trying to illustrate that it's not a simple, straightforward category you seek a label for, at least as I see it.)







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                        I minored in linguistics and I'm not aware of a single word that means "a word that shares a root with another word".



                        As I read the question, neither of the two words you want to describe is itself the root (if Hebrew roots work like Arabic roots and they aren't words you can say by themselves, this makes sense). So if you want to use "derivative", you would have to get a little wordier and say "Thus, these two derivatives of [root] appear seven times in the chapter."



                        Or just take the casual approach and say "thus, rejoice and the related word joy appear seven times", if the exact relationship between the two isn't important. I'm not sure "related word" has a formal definition as a phrase, but it sounds perfectly natural to me just based on the meaning of "related" and "word" put together.



                        I also like tmgr's suggestion:




                        Thus, the verb and its noun form, X, appear seven times in the chapter.







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                        • That is helpful. My Hebrew is limited but I do remember the expression "triliteral root" as applying to the three consonants most Hebrew words are built from. Because the verb "samach" is triliteral and the noun "simchah" had a fourth consonant I assumed that the noun was derivative of the verb. That could be a wrong assumption. Perhaps someone with a better grasp of Semitic languages can help us out.
                          – Joseph O.
                          Dec 8 at 0:05










                        • +1 Taking a step back and going to the root of the words (and the problem!) is a neat way to deal with this. Keeping it very general also works well too.
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                          Dec 8 at 20:12
















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                        I minored in linguistics and I'm not aware of a single word that means "a word that shares a root with another word".



                        As I read the question, neither of the two words you want to describe is itself the root (if Hebrew roots work like Arabic roots and they aren't words you can say by themselves, this makes sense). So if you want to use "derivative", you would have to get a little wordier and say "Thus, these two derivatives of [root] appear seven times in the chapter."



                        Or just take the casual approach and say "thus, rejoice and the related word joy appear seven times", if the exact relationship between the two isn't important. I'm not sure "related word" has a formal definition as a phrase, but it sounds perfectly natural to me just based on the meaning of "related" and "word" put together.



                        I also like tmgr's suggestion:




                        Thus, the verb and its noun form, X, appear seven times in the chapter.







                        share|improve this answer





















                        • That is helpful. My Hebrew is limited but I do remember the expression "triliteral root" as applying to the three consonants most Hebrew words are built from. Because the verb "samach" is triliteral and the noun "simchah" had a fourth consonant I assumed that the noun was derivative of the verb. That could be a wrong assumption. Perhaps someone with a better grasp of Semitic languages can help us out.
                          – Joseph O.
                          Dec 8 at 0:05










                        • +1 Taking a step back and going to the root of the words (and the problem!) is a neat way to deal with this. Keeping it very general also works well too.
                          – tmgr
                          Dec 8 at 20:12














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                        I minored in linguistics and I'm not aware of a single word that means "a word that shares a root with another word".



                        As I read the question, neither of the two words you want to describe is itself the root (if Hebrew roots work like Arabic roots and they aren't words you can say by themselves, this makes sense). So if you want to use "derivative", you would have to get a little wordier and say "Thus, these two derivatives of [root] appear seven times in the chapter."



                        Or just take the casual approach and say "thus, rejoice and the related word joy appear seven times", if the exact relationship between the two isn't important. I'm not sure "related word" has a formal definition as a phrase, but it sounds perfectly natural to me just based on the meaning of "related" and "word" put together.



                        I also like tmgr's suggestion:




                        Thus, the verb and its noun form, X, appear seven times in the chapter.







                        share|improve this answer












                        I minored in linguistics and I'm not aware of a single word that means "a word that shares a root with another word".



                        As I read the question, neither of the two words you want to describe is itself the root (if Hebrew roots work like Arabic roots and they aren't words you can say by themselves, this makes sense). So if you want to use "derivative", you would have to get a little wordier and say "Thus, these two derivatives of [root] appear seven times in the chapter."



                        Or just take the casual approach and say "thus, rejoice and the related word joy appear seven times", if the exact relationship between the two isn't important. I'm not sure "related word" has a formal definition as a phrase, but it sounds perfectly natural to me just based on the meaning of "related" and "word" put together.



                        I also like tmgr's suggestion:




                        Thus, the verb and its noun form, X, appear seven times in the chapter.








                        share|improve this answer












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                        • That is helpful. My Hebrew is limited but I do remember the expression "triliteral root" as applying to the three consonants most Hebrew words are built from. Because the verb "samach" is triliteral and the noun "simchah" had a fourth consonant I assumed that the noun was derivative of the verb. That could be a wrong assumption. Perhaps someone with a better grasp of Semitic languages can help us out.
                          – Joseph O.
                          Dec 8 at 0:05










                        • +1 Taking a step back and going to the root of the words (and the problem!) is a neat way to deal with this. Keeping it very general also works well too.
                          – tmgr
                          Dec 8 at 20:12


















                        • That is helpful. My Hebrew is limited but I do remember the expression "triliteral root" as applying to the three consonants most Hebrew words are built from. Because the verb "samach" is triliteral and the noun "simchah" had a fourth consonant I assumed that the noun was derivative of the verb. That could be a wrong assumption. Perhaps someone with a better grasp of Semitic languages can help us out.
                          – Joseph O.
                          Dec 8 at 0:05










                        • +1 Taking a step back and going to the root of the words (and the problem!) is a neat way to deal with this. Keeping it very general also works well too.
                          – tmgr
                          Dec 8 at 20:12
















                        That is helpful. My Hebrew is limited but I do remember the expression "triliteral root" as applying to the three consonants most Hebrew words are built from. Because the verb "samach" is triliteral and the noun "simchah" had a fourth consonant I assumed that the noun was derivative of the verb. That could be a wrong assumption. Perhaps someone with a better grasp of Semitic languages can help us out.
                        – Joseph O.
                        Dec 8 at 0:05




                        That is helpful. My Hebrew is limited but I do remember the expression "triliteral root" as applying to the three consonants most Hebrew words are built from. Because the verb "samach" is triliteral and the noun "simchah" had a fourth consonant I assumed that the noun was derivative of the verb. That could be a wrong assumption. Perhaps someone with a better grasp of Semitic languages can help us out.
                        – Joseph O.
                        Dec 8 at 0:05












                        +1 Taking a step back and going to the root of the words (and the problem!) is a neat way to deal with this. Keeping it very general also works well too.
                        – tmgr
                        Dec 8 at 20:12




                        +1 Taking a step back and going to the root of the words (and the problem!) is a neat way to deal with this. Keeping it very general also works well too.
                        – tmgr
                        Dec 8 at 20:12











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                        You have the "stem", "root", or "morpheme", or "radical", partly depending on what area of linguistics you are in [radix= latin word for (plant) root]. From one word you get a "derivative" word, and its reverse is the "primitive" form.



                        https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Word_stem



                        But what you are considering are inflections of a stem, https://quirkycase.wordpress.com/2013/04/17/linguistics-for-laypeople-inflection-vs-derivation/ .






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                          You have the "stem", "root", or "morpheme", or "radical", partly depending on what area of linguistics you are in [radix= latin word for (plant) root]. From one word you get a "derivative" word, and its reverse is the "primitive" form.



                          https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Word_stem



                          But what you are considering are inflections of a stem, https://quirkycase.wordpress.com/2013/04/17/linguistics-for-laypeople-inflection-vs-derivation/ .






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                            You have the "stem", "root", or "morpheme", or "radical", partly depending on what area of linguistics you are in [radix= latin word for (plant) root]. From one word you get a "derivative" word, and its reverse is the "primitive" form.



                            https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Word_stem



                            But what you are considering are inflections of a stem, https://quirkycase.wordpress.com/2013/04/17/linguistics-for-laypeople-inflection-vs-derivation/ .






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                            You have the "stem", "root", or "morpheme", or "radical", partly depending on what area of linguistics you are in [radix= latin word for (plant) root]. From one word you get a "derivative" word, and its reverse is the "primitive" form.



                            https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Word_stem



                            But what you are considering are inflections of a stem, https://quirkycase.wordpress.com/2013/04/17/linguistics-for-laypeople-inflection-vs-derivation/ .







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                                deverbal noun

                                (e.g. destruction, container, growth and adjustment are deverbal nouns that derive from destroy, contain grow and adjust respectively)

                                (also, deverbal nouns are a specific subclass of derivatives, a term correctly suggested by @user240918)



                                Some useful references:

                                - Wikipedia article (general overview)

                                - Chomsky, Noam (1970) Remarks on Nominalization (classic discussion of the topic in Generative Grammar)

                                - Gurevich, Olga et al. (2008) Deverbal Nouns in Knowledge Representation (state-of-the art computational treatment of deverbal nouns)

                                - Grimshaw, Jane (1990) Argument Structure (chapter 4 on arguments of "event nominals")

                                - Marantz, Alex (1990) No Escape from Syntax: Don't Try Morphological Analysis in the Privacy of Your Own Lexicon (on deverbal nouns in a framework called "Distributed Morphology")






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                                  deverbal noun

                                  (e.g. destruction, container, growth and adjustment are deverbal nouns that derive from destroy, contain grow and adjust respectively)

                                  (also, deverbal nouns are a specific subclass of derivatives, a term correctly suggested by @user240918)



                                  Some useful references:

                                  - Wikipedia article (general overview)

                                  - Chomsky, Noam (1970) Remarks on Nominalization (classic discussion of the topic in Generative Grammar)

                                  - Gurevich, Olga et al. (2008) Deverbal Nouns in Knowledge Representation (state-of-the art computational treatment of deverbal nouns)

                                  - Grimshaw, Jane (1990) Argument Structure (chapter 4 on arguments of "event nominals")

                                  - Marantz, Alex (1990) No Escape from Syntax: Don't Try Morphological Analysis in the Privacy of Your Own Lexicon (on deverbal nouns in a framework called "Distributed Morphology")






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                                    deverbal noun

                                    (e.g. destruction, container, growth and adjustment are deverbal nouns that derive from destroy, contain grow and adjust respectively)

                                    (also, deverbal nouns are a specific subclass of derivatives, a term correctly suggested by @user240918)



                                    Some useful references:

                                    - Wikipedia article (general overview)

                                    - Chomsky, Noam (1970) Remarks on Nominalization (classic discussion of the topic in Generative Grammar)

                                    - Gurevich, Olga et al. (2008) Deverbal Nouns in Knowledge Representation (state-of-the art computational treatment of deverbal nouns)

                                    - Grimshaw, Jane (1990) Argument Structure (chapter 4 on arguments of "event nominals")

                                    - Marantz, Alex (1990) No Escape from Syntax: Don't Try Morphological Analysis in the Privacy of Your Own Lexicon (on deverbal nouns in a framework called "Distributed Morphology")






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                                    deverbal noun

                                    (e.g. destruction, container, growth and adjustment are deverbal nouns that derive from destroy, contain grow and adjust respectively)

                                    (also, deverbal nouns are a specific subclass of derivatives, a term correctly suggested by @user240918)



                                    Some useful references:

                                    - Wikipedia article (general overview)

                                    - Chomsky, Noam (1970) Remarks on Nominalization (classic discussion of the topic in Generative Grammar)

                                    - Gurevich, Olga et al. (2008) Deverbal Nouns in Knowledge Representation (state-of-the art computational treatment of deverbal nouns)

                                    - Grimshaw, Jane (1990) Argument Structure (chapter 4 on arguments of "event nominals")

                                    - Marantz, Alex (1990) No Escape from Syntax: Don't Try Morphological Analysis in the Privacy of Your Own Lexicon (on deverbal nouns in a framework called "Distributed Morphology")







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