nominalled

Nominalled is a term occasionally used in linguistic discussion to describe the act of treating a word or phrase as a noun, or of converting a non-nominal form into a nominal form. In this sense it overlaps with nominalization, the broader process by which verbs, adjectives, or other categories are turned into nouns. Nominalled is not widely standardized in reference works and is considered nonstandard or idiosyncratic in many grammars; more common variants are nominalized or nominalisation.

Etymology and usage notes: the form combines nominal, referring to a name or designation, with the suffix -ed to mark past or completed action. Because it is not a fixed term in most grammars, writers often prefer the clearer term nominalization or simply describe the specific process (for example, turning a verb into a noun) without labeling it as nominalled. In many contexts, the intended meaning is conveyed by saying that a word has been nominalized rather than by using nominalled.

Examples: in discussing English, one might say that the verb to decide can be nominalled to yield the noun decision. Similarly, the gerund forms like running function as nominal equivalents of verbs, illustrating nominalization in practice, even if the exact label nominalled is not universally used. The term is therefore primarily of niche or descriptive use and appears mainly in scholarly prose or in grammars that experiment with terminology.

See also: Nominalization, Morphology, Parts of speech, Grammatical category.