In such pairs as "to race" — "(the) race", "to jump" — "(the) jump", "to cry" — "(the) cry", "to speak" — "(the) speech", "to think" — "(the) thought", "to err" — "(the) error", "to judge" — "(the) judgement" the first word denotes an action; the meaning of the second word, as related to the first, will be analysed in this paper.^*