I realized that the verbs for forgetting and remembering have odd morphology.
That forgetting should be deponent doesn't surprise me given the origins of Latin's deponent. It is somewhat a folly that happens to you by you. Easily explainable with the stop at middle voice before heading off to deponent. But why on earth should the verb for remembering be odd? It's only perfect?
Yeah, I've seen the explanation in Gildersleeve's. I'm not sure I buy it 100%.
Anyway, just one of those I was in the shower realizations.
oblīvīscor, ī, —, oblītus sum – to forget
—, —, meminī – to remember
That forgetting should be deponent doesn't surprise me given the origins of Latin's deponent. It is somewhat a folly that happens to you by you. Easily explainable with the stop at middle voice before heading off to deponent. But why on earth should the verb for remembering be odd? It's only perfect?
Yeah, I've seen the explanation in Gildersleeve's. I'm not sure I buy it 100%.
Anyway, just one of those I was in the shower realizations.
