[Magdalen] Like I Was Puzzled.

[Charles Wohlers]

Well, the link you gave substantiated what Roger & I quoted from the OED - 
husband as a noun goes back to Old English, and older; husband as a verb to 
1400's.

Chad Wohlers
Woodbury, VT USA
chadwohl at satucket.com



-----Original Message----- 
From: James Oppenheimer-Crawford
Sent: Sunday, December 21, 2014 2:21 PM
To: Magdalen at herberthouse.org
Subject: Re: [Magdalen] Like I Was Puzzled.

Apparently the verb is much older than dirt. From our perspective, both
forms are older than understandable English.

http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/husband

James W. Oppenheimer-Crawford
*“If you have a chance to accomplish something that will make things better
for people coming behind you, and you don’t do it, you're wasting your time
on this Earth.”  -- *Roberto Clemente

On Sun, Dec 21, 2014 at 12:23 PM, ME Michaud <michaudme at gmail.com> wrote:

> Wasn't husband originally a verb that got itself nouned?
> -M
>
> On Sun, Dec 21, 2014 at 12:09 PM, Roger Stokes <
> roger.stokes65 at btinternet.com> wrote:
>
> > The Oxford English Dictionary records "father" being used as a verb in
> > 1483 in the sense of begetting (procreation) and 1548 as the originator
> of
> > something else.
> >
>