"Nothing" used to come from "to nothe" but it lost the subject slot since there's nothing that could nothe. Today we only know its gerund.
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German gerund is nice and useful, in fact you'll see native German speakers overuse it in English
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Similarly, "to somethe" meaning to be an instance of. e.g. This somethes a lie about grammar.
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