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Re: mora

From:Benct Philip Jonsson <bpj@...>
Date:Thursday, June 24, 2004, 16:58
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^) -- B.Philip Jonsson mailto:melrochX@melroch.se (delete X) Solitudinem faciunt pacem appellant! (Tacitus)