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LB: you laugh but this is called backformation and is a form of analogy. It's also precisely how we got the verbs donate, automate and resurrect in English.
As the suffix -tion is one way we turn verbs into nouns when the nouns donation, automation and resurrection turned up people assumed they came from verbs and so the verbs came to be. But no such verbs previously existed
Something for #conlangers to be aware of when aging their languages