ddeclue
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Sun Mar-14-10 04:20 PM
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Actually Viking is a gerund not a verb... |
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:rofl: the infinitive form of the verb would be: "to vike" the past participle would be viked.. as in "He got viked." as a gerund: "He went viking" - a gerund being a verb used as a noun. Someone who "vikes" would be known as a "viker" :rofl: P.S. found this at the urban dictionary: http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=VikeMore fun stuff: http://mkbehr.tumblr.com/post/882173/vikinghttp://www.ducey.com/pool2000/wk11.htmlhttp://sci.tech-archive.net/Archive/sci.archaeology/2004-06/0233.html
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Sun Mar-14-10 04:23 PM
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1. Shaking head here------too old to get it. |
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Maybe you should remove the capital "V" from your header.
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Sun Mar-14-10 04:30 PM
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6. That'd help. The upper case V makes it a proper noun. |
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And gerunds ARE verbs used as nouns, although what is claimed as this particular verb "to vike" is jargon and, hence, not part of common usage.
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Sun Mar-14-10 04:31 PM
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8. it's a joke folks.. someone in another thread claimed "Viking is a verb" |
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so I had a little fun based on the "ing".
People here have no sense of humor.
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Sun Mar-14-10 04:33 PM
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9. Sorry! I guess you had to be there. |
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Sun Mar-14-10 04:24 PM
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2. Half Swedish, half Norwegian here. And I must ask: WTF??? |
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Glad you're enjoying your Sunday.
But Yumpin' Yiminy!
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Sun Mar-14-10 04:27 PM
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5. someone in another thread said "Viking is a verb".. |
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I corrected him to point out that it actually a gerund.. I thought it was funny enough to deserve its own OP.
:rofl:
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Sun Mar-14-10 04:26 PM
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3. "Vik" is the Old Norse word for "town". |
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Cognate with English "wich" (like Greenwich). Viking means "he who goes to other viks", that is, traders and raiders.
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Sun Mar-14-10 04:30 PM
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7. Did someone say Vikings Raiders? |
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Sun Mar-14-10 04:47 PM
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11. thanks for that info. I always like to learn word origins. |
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Another is yankees. The first settlers of New York (new Amsterdam) were Dutch, and the generic nickname for them was Jan Kees, or John Cheese. It evolved into yankees. (I think)
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Sun Mar-14-10 04:27 PM
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4. Aardvarking is a verb, though |
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Joe Bob says check it out.
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