Etymograph

English

mora

Mora comes from Latin mora ‘duration of time, delay’, and goes back to Proto-Indo-European *merh₂- ‘to crumble, crush, destroy’.

  1. Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*merh₂-‘to crumble, crush, destroy’reconstructed
  2. Proto-Indo-European, derivedc. 4500–2500 BCE*morh₂éh₂reconstructed
  3. Proto-Italicc. 1500–700 BCE*morāreconstructed
  4. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEmora‘duration of time, delay’
  5. Englishearliest quotation 1918same form

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed

Lineage

  1. Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*merh₂-‘to crumble, crush, destroy’reconstructed
  2. Proto-Indo-European, derivedc. 4500–2500 BCE*morh₂éh₂reconstructed
  3. Proto-Italicc. 1500–700 BCE*morāreconstructed
  4. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEmora‘duration of time, delay’
  5. Englishearliest quotation 1918same form

Earliest quotation: 1918, Elcanon Isaacs, The Metrical Basis of Hebrew Poetry: “In the quantitative meters in Sanskrit a heavy syllable…”

Linked words

through Proto-Indo-European *merh₂- ‘to crumble, crush, destroy’

marble, mallet, 11 more

Another origin of mora

  1. Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*(s)mer-‘to assign, allot’reconstructed
  2. Proto-Hellenicc. 2200–1600 BCE*(h)méřřomaireconstructed
  3. Ancient Greekc. 800–300 BCEμείρομαιmeíromai‘to receive as one's portion’
  4. Ancient Greek, derivedc. 800–300 BCEμόρᾱmórā
  5. Englishtodaymora

Today it means

noun A delay in bringing a claim.

Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.

Etymograph / Proto-Indo-European *merh₂- / mora

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