Associations to the word «Deverbal»

Wiktionary

DEVERBAL, adjective. (grammar) (linguistics) Derived from a verb. Commonly used to describe nominalized verb forms in Navajo, as well as gerunds and adjectives in Russian.
DEVERBAL, noun. (grammar) A word, especially a substantive, that is derived from a verb; a deverbative.

Wise words

Words to me were magic. You could say a word and it could conjure up all kinds of images or feelings or a chilly sensation or whatever. It was amazing to me that words had this power.
Amy Tan