nouns derived from verbs
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foxfirebrand
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Southern AE greatly modified by a 1st-generation Scottish-American mother, and growing up abroad.
Your examples aren't compound nouns. Do you mean nouns that you would expect to end in -er or -or, like worker or actor?
Then there are words like braggart and voyeur.
My memory is only coming up with variants and exotic words, like pedlar or knight templar. And exemplar. Ah, that academic one finally surfaced-- registrar.
Or is it really compound nouns you're after? Like bugbear and sidecar?
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Then there are words like braggart and voyeur.
My memory is only coming up with variants and exotic words, like pedlar or knight templar. And exemplar. Ah, that academic one finally surfaced-- registrar.
Or is it really compound nouns you're after? Like bugbear and sidecar?
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Yes, you're right. What I meant was a kind of derivative nouns, derived from verbs, e.g liar from to lie, beggar from to beg.
Pedlar is great, thank you
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Familiar - Oh, I didn't know that. Could you give an example how it functions in a sentence?
While I would suggest that a witch's familiar is actually an adjective which has been separated from its noun - familiar spirit, the noun familiar is used of someone attached to the house of a bishop. The person lives in the bishop's house as a family member, providing some service in return for their keep. There may be some connection between that familiar and the one who was an officer of the Inquisition, who arrested suspected persons. Both words derive from family.
panjandrum
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English-Ireland (top end)
... burglar
panjandrum
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English-Ireland (top end)
Oops, when I checked I found that burgle is a back-formation from burglar so it doesn't really countThese are called "agent nouns."