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Verb "walk" noun "walk" one word or tw Mon Feb 06, 2006 12:48 pm  Verb "walk" noun "walk" one word or tw
 

Hi, I have a question on lexicology. That is ,verb "walk" and Noun "walk", how do you understand, are they two words or one word?
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Verb "walk" noun "walk" one word or tw Mon Feb 06, 2006 13:56 pm  Verb "walk" noun "walk" one word or tw
 

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I think they've been the same word for a long time, Kitty. From the Online Etymological Dictionary (q.v.):

walk (n.) c.1386, "act of walking".
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