Re: mora
| From: | Benct Philip Jonsson <bpj@...> |
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| Date: | Thursday, June 24, 2004, 16:58 |
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At 00:00 6/24/2004, Tim May wrote:
>I don't believe "mora" is a native Japanese word, although
>people learning Japanese often assume this (certainly I did).
It most certainly is a Latin word, since the word has been
used for centuries as a term in Latin versification.
It happens to be well-formed for Japanese, though.
It has a Latin plural _morae_ even in English, BTW.
/BP 8^)
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