Hah random hungary facts go: Hungarian is an agglutinative language which means we form much more of our active grammar with affixes than english for example. This means you can sorta just glue stuff together. “Inni innivalót”: to drink a drink; “enni ennivalót”: to eat food. But this also means you can for example form something like: “elintézni az elintéznivalót” which means “to deal with the thing that has to be dealt with”. These are all nouns formed from verbs but you can also do the opposite by forming a verb from a noun “titkot titkol: hides a secret”(lit.: secrets a secret). Thank you for reading another of my linguistic rants 👍

I think the word drink was originally only an action, until someone started to refer to all drinkable items as “drinks” and the language adapted.

A similar thing is happening now, as people call things that can be eaten, “eats”. So you can " eat an eat"

In arabic they say to food food.

In norwegian we say to butter butter.

Pathetic. In german(y) you can essen Essen in Essen.

Sweetmeat is candy but sweetbread is offal meat, discuss!

You can quaff a drink instead.

But you can feed food.

You drink a drink and you eat an eat. Like in the show Good Eats.

If you’re saying “Food a food”, then a closer pairing would be “beverage a beverage”

Etymology is actually interesting if you really want to know answers like this (well, sort of answers anyhow).

You can scran some scran (food)

Is this dog snoop or is this snoop dog?

Once I heard the following from two Russian colleagues at works:

- Пить есть, есть нету?
- Есть есть, пить нету.

For more than a decade, I’ve been learning the language, for the art and jobs mainly, but that was quite hard to realize at the times…