forcing myself to remember the verb for "to hit" by going "it's the one that starts with 'peg', as in, i'm going to hit that [from the back]"
btw this is not a joke, i used this mnemonic and improved my "soccer verbs" spanish lesson score from 50% to 100%
@imp in soccer, what is used, pegar? Golpear? Dar la patada?
@Betty pegar! the duolingo sports module had pegar, patear, and pelear (in addition to atrapar) so i was fighting for my LIFE
@imp p words, v annoying. Patear is easy for me to connect to ped: pedestrian, pedal, quadruped, etc, but the rest I don't see a cognate!
@Satsuma @Betty @imp etymonline says uncertain origin, possibly latin but possibly old french! https://www.etymonline.com/word/pelt