Word Watch 9, "Which comes first, the chicken or the egg?"

In encountering words, I often wonder which comes first, the verb or the noun. Three words in particular that I looked at are intimate, record, and contact. The first two I looked at were intimate and record. Both, according to the OED timelines, were first used at verbs. I got a little excited, but I should have known better. Contact was first used as a noun. I realize three words is quite a small control standard, but it looks as if both the chicken and the egg came first. There probably is no real standard.