"Please don't complain about tangential annoyances [...] They're too common to be interesting."

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

While I don't always love 'denominalization' (if I that's the right word), the verb 'speed' is a common one, e.g., 'speed up'.

Every word we use was created at some point, often in the same way. There is nothing magical about the people and the words they created in 1824 that makes them better than us and words we create in 2024, except perhaps that the 1824 words we still use have stood the test of time.

Also, as far as I can tell, the verb form is as old as the noun form.

I read moby dick for the first time last summer. That guy verbs nouns, adjects verbs and nouns adjects like he's building language from first principles. It takes a bit getting used to, but eventually it both speeds up and broadens language. Why use different roots for each category? And with each root connoting slightly different, why not use that and pick the exact root that means best?

Yes. They had verbed it by the 12th century, according to: https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/speed#word-histor...

I sped read the title so didn't notice