8.6 Verbal nouns 5298.6.3 Suppletive verbal nouns
Two verbs have VblN's based on stems not used in the simple inflected verb
forms such as PerfP and Imprt, though the special stems do recur in the long
imperfectives (561).(561) Suppletive Verbal Nounsgloss Imprt PerfP suppletive VblN suppletive LoImpfP'eat' aeks -aksa- t-e-taste /-tattA-/
'give' aekf -akfa- i-hükk, i-suff /-hakkA-/
[cf. t-e-haeke 'giving, generosity']For 'give', in addition to i-hükk (sharing a stem with LoImpfP -hdkk-),
there is also a second suppletive VblN i-süff unrelated to the LoImpfP. Both
i-hükk and i-siiff are plural in form.
For 'go', the common VblN is suppletive t-ekle 'going', but the main
inflected motion verbs, -vjlu- 'go', -usi> 'arrive, come', and -vkku- 'go to'
(§7.3.2.6-7), do have attested VblN forms of their own.8.6.4 Semantic extensions of verbal nouns
Many of the nominals that are used as VblN's (for example, as complements
of -vknu- 'be/do very much'), essentially denoting a pure activity or state, can
also have more concrete senses.
For example, α-m-s-uk can be a simple VblN meaning 'spreading, sending
around (news)'. It can also be an object nominal: 'something sent'. The details
are lexically specific and are best left to dictionary entries.
As a second example, for -vjvr- 'throw (stone), strike (flint)', one would
expect a VblN e-jer. This does occur, but its usual sense is 'incense'. Another
form aejjor can be used as VblN.8.6.5 Abstractive nominals
The abstractive nominals in (562) are at least arguably denominative, derived
from the nouns in the leftmost column (most of which denote human types).
Most of the noun-abstractive sets shown, however, are parts of larger word-
families also including verbs. While the precise derivational relationships are
not always clear, in most of the cases in (562) the "related noun" seems to be
basic to the word family.