is "fellowship" a verb?

[photosynthesis]

a lot of my protestant friends use "fellowship" as a verb, but i've never heard Catholics refer to fellowship in this way..

[Sojourner]

What's wrong with it?

[jgirl]

Fellowship is definitely a noun!

As such, it probably shouldn't be used as a verb.

[tojo]

I've taken a few linguistics classes in college. It is a regular linguistic feature in Enhlish to us enouns as verbs, furthermore the way English works, you can pretty much do anything you want to so long as people understand you and you..........

In other words, fellowship can be a verb if you want it to be. Welcome to the English language.....

[Theoketos]

I think that I am going to fellowship over here for a while.

[Earthsea Annie]

[quote name='jgirl' date='Dec 20 2005, 05:38 AM']Fellowship is definitely a noun!

As such, it probably shouldn't be used as a verb.
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There are many words which do double duty as both nouns and verbs.

Here are five I can think of without even trying hard:
Run
Walk
Goose
fluffy air extraction
Stamp

Just because a word is a noun doesn't mean it can't be a verb. And vice versa.

[jgirl]

Fellowship just doesn't sound right as a verb. You create fellowship or participate in activities that build fellowship.

[photosynthesis]

goose is a verb?

i don't think there's anything wrong with it, but my old roommate (earth's alien) and i were having a discussion and she was saying "I go to church for the P+W, the sermon, and to fellowship with other believers" and I was like "typical protestant--you used "fellowship as a verb"

so i wanted to know if there are any Catholics that talk like this...

it doesn't seem like "fellowship" is as much of a buzzword in the Catholic traditionas it is with the protestant tradition

[Sojourner]

[quote name='photosynthesis' date='Dec 20 2005, 01:02 PM']goose is a verb?
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You've never been goosed? It's when someone pokes you in the butt.


Oh ... and I use fellowship as a verb, but then I used to be Protestant, so it probably doesn't count.

[photosynthesis]

wow... they don't talk like that up here...

[Sojourner]

I bet Theoketos knows all about it.

[photosynthesis]

being goosed?

[Sojourner]

He appears to know about all things goose-related.

[photosynthesis]

like canada geese?

[Sojourner]

I'm sure that would fall into his general purview

[1337 k4th0l1x0r]

Using 'fellowship' as a verb isn't the worst one. IMO, the worst one is 'conversate,' especially used in its participle form. For example, "I was conversating with my friend." Grrrrrr

[Sojourner]

[quote name='1337 k4th0l1x0r' date='Dec 20 2005, 01:45 PM']Using 'fellowship' as a verb isn't the worst one.  IMO, the worst one is 'conversate,' especially used in its participle form. For example, "I was conversating with my friend."  Grrrrrr
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Or when people say "anyways."

[Deeds]

Fellowship isn't a verb. Even though some nouns are also verbs, the suffix "-ship" means

1.
a. Quality, state, or condition: [i]scholarship[/i].
b. Something that shows or possesses a quality, state, or condition: [i]courtship[/i].
2. Rank, status, or office: [i]professorship[/i].
3. Art, skill, or craft: [i]penmanship[/i].
4. A collective body: [i]readership[/i].

(dictionary.com)

[Sojourner]

It is a verb according to Merriam-Webster:

Main Entry: fellowship
Function: verb
Inflected Form(s): -shipped also fel·low·shiped /-"shipt/; -ship·ping also fel·low·ship·ing /-"shi-pi[ng]/
intransitive senses : to join in fellowship especially with a church member
transitive senses : to admit to fellowship (as in a church)

[Deeds]

Mmm, ok, maybe they've included it because it's in popular usuage in the USA, but to me it doesn't make sense for it to be a verb. It's like, "Do you want to come and organisation with us?"