Is there a term for the verb, and/or the pair of words, where the verb ends in 'er' following a noun?
Examples:
- mind reader
- star gazer
- grounds keeper
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'Reader', 'gazer' and 'keeper' are agent nouns. 'Mind reader' etc is a compound noun. I assume that makes 'ground keeper' etc compound agent nouns. – Edwin Ashworth Jan 05 '22 at 19:12
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Nouns that are formed from verbs like this (i.e., through derivation with a suffix such as -er) are called agent nouns. Quoting Wikipedia:
In linguistics, an agent noun (in Latin, nomen agentis) is a word that is derived from another word denoting an action, and that identifies an entity that does that action. For example, "driver" is an agent noun formed from the verb "drive".
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