@kengaroo - I think you do not understand grammatical terminology - and please forgive if I have totally misunderstood you but here goes;
verb - is something you (or even a less tangible thing like in your example) can 'do' or act out - like write, read, coalesce, eat, bring, deliver, live
and verbs are probably some of the very first verbal utterances of mankind. If you are at all interested in simpler languages, you will find that the verb tends to remain static and either has eventually endings attached to it, to more clearly specify, whether you are talking about the act, whether he, she or it are talking about an act, as in English: I write, you write, he/she/it writes - some languages act that specifier in front, or simply make a longer word out of the simple word stem, which mostly remains static as in English, sometimes devilishly difficult in Latin.
Noun - probably also came into being early, as a descriptive word for man, woman, tree, cave, animal etc. - so it became a naming word for things which weren't actually done, but were objects or creatures, including later on ideas, or an entity, a quality or even stuff like 'tomorrow'
later on as language became more complex and - given our fondness for socialising etc., it would not have taken long to develop language(s) into more complex structures - then it often became necessary to actually turn those simple 'doing words' into nouns, or invent new words, for both actions and things.
for example the verb 'write' became 'writing' or 'writings' when seen in a written book, (but there is also the act of 'as I am writing' which is still a 'doing word' but in the present - it's called a 'present participle' but it can also be the 'thing' the tablet, piece of paper on which I have written down a prayer - or on a wall '
mene tekel etc.' 'the
writing on the wall - here 'writing' is used as a noun.
Nouns eventally came to designate abstract things like ideas (immortality), apart from physical things; a person (astronaut), a place (house), a thing (canoe), also an entity (Group of Seven), a quality (determination) or a point in time (tomorrow)
so certain endings or suffixes like 'ing' 'ness' 'ation' and simple adding a 'y' to a word (Beauty - which comes from the French 'Beauté') can turn verbs or adverbs (beautiful, bad, good, etc. are adverbs) into nouns - (but don't forget the present participle form of every verb is 'ing' added to the word stem) .
The word stem of verbs is the often single syllable first part of a word, which we don't always recognise, like in coalesce - it is actually 'coalesc' the 'ence' is the French ending which turns it into a noun.
English is a composite of a Germanic root language and a Franco-Romanic language (French), hence there are now many endings, also denoting the state of 'noun-ness' - in fact the 'French' teaching disks I have by one
Michel Thomas have one whole lesson devoted to using existing English words, twigging their pronounciation and 'hela' you can speak French in one lesson.
Hope this helps and apologies if it is too 'Kindergarten' for you
Taurisk
