Re: Mood names ...

Roger Mills wrote:
>Andreas Johansson wrote:
>
> >>  >Also, there's three moods I have no idea what I should call. They,
> >>roughly,
> >> >corresponds to English "ought to", "need to" and "must".
> >>
> >>Ought:  "morally" obligatory  (I can't think of a term for this)  vs.
> >>Must/Have to:  simple obligation-- obligative?
> >>Need to:   necessitive seems OK
> >
> >Necessitive is in, then. Moral vs physical obligative for the two others
> >perhaps
>
>I originally thought of obligative for "ought", coercive for "must, have
>to", but that didn't seem accurate.  Intervening posts now suggest--
>
>ought:  obligative
>must/have to:  debitive (~debitative?), reflecting Lat. debere. (Or, what
>was Latin for "duty"???)
I guess "obligative" is set then. What does lat _debere_ mean, exactly?

And it appears I forgot one of the moods, which signifies "be allowed to,
have the right to".I'm currently calling it "permissive" - is that good?

                                                   Andreas

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