On Tue, 13 Oct 2009 02:25:07 -0400, Jeremie Pelletier <[email protected]>
wrote:
Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
[snip]
to lend
loan
lending
are all of the same root. "lent" is the passive/simple past/past
participle form of "to lend".
I guess is the French word is one of "confer\'e" or "pr\^et\'e".
Thanks! I now make the link, may I then suggest the keyword 'borrow',
seems to make more sense to me.
Borrow is a verb, borrowed would be correct noun (i.e. past tense). A lent
object and a borrowed object have practically the same meaning, but one
word has half the number of characters.
