Voiceless noun endings with voiced verb endings

pronunciation-vs-spelling etymology phonology parts-of-speech derivational-morphology

Solution 1:

I don't know a name for this, but it is a well-established phenomenon of English.

Other examples are

  • belief/believe
  • grief/grieve
  • bath/bathe
  • mouth/mouth
  • wreath/wreathe
  • glass/glaze
  • grass/graze
  • brass/braze

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