Zabyt'

[Mills Charles]

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>> If you look at the usage of the 'za-' meaning "directionality of
>> action, movement beyond some kind of limits (or boundary), somewhere
>> far away", then you can
>> make a case for the knowledge still being in your brain, but somewhere
>> far away from you conscious control, and therefore not retrievable.
>
>Cf. the Polish verb for "forget" - zapomniec' - (not to be
>confused with Russian _zapomnit'_), which also seems to suggest
>something beyond the reach of (retrievable) memory.

And certainly not to be confused for Czech "zaby't" (to kill)--along with "devka"
(prostitute)--the bane of my existence my first year in the Czech Rep.!

C.
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