Actually Viking is a gerund not a verb...

[ddeclue]

:rofl:

the infinitive form of the verb would be: "to vike"

the past participle would be viked.. as in "He got viked."

as a gerund: "He went viking" - a gerund being a verb used as a noun.

Someone who "vikes" would be known as a "viker"

:rofl:

P.S. found this at the urban dictionary:
http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Vike

More fun stuff:
http://mkbehr.tumblr.com/post/882173/viking

http://www.ducey.com/pool2000/wk11.html

http://sci.tech-archive.net/Archive/sci.archaeology/2004-06/0233.html

[virgogal]

1. Shaking head here------too old to get it.

Maybe you should remove the capital "V" from your header.

[patrice]

6. That'd help. The upper case V makes it a proper noun.

And gerunds ARE verbs used as nouns, although what is claimed as this particular verb "to vike" is jargon and, hence, not part of common usage.

[ddeclue]

8. it's a joke folks.. someone in another thread claimed "Viking is a verb"

so I had a little fun based on the "ing".

People here have no sense of humor.

[patrice]

9. Sorry! I guess you had to be there.

[Faygo Kid]

2. Half Swedish, half Norwegian here. And I must ask: WTF???

Glad you're enjoying your Sunday.

But Yumpin' Yiminy!

[ddeclue]

5. someone in another thread said "Viking is a verb"..

I corrected him to point out that it actually a gerund.. I thought it was funny enough to deserve its own OP.

:rofl:

[Odin2005]

3. "Vik" is the Old Norse word for "town".

Cognate with English "wich" (like Greenwich). Viking means "he who goes to other viks", that is, traders and raiders.

[ddeclue]

7. Did someone say Vikings Raiders?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wwAIM49DVO0

:rofl:

[panader0]

11. thanks for that info. I always like to learn word origins.

Another is yankees. The first settlers of New York (new Amsterdam) were Dutch, and the generic nickname for them was Jan Kees, or John Cheese. It evolved into yankees. (I think)

[gratuitous]

4. Aardvarking is a verb, though

Joe Bob says check it out.

[Last_Stand]

10. .