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morà Grammatical information: f. ā Proto-Slavic meaning: `nightly spirit, nightmare'Page in Trubačev: XIX 211-214Church Slavic:Russian:móra (dial.) `mythological female creature, ghost, darkness' [m/f ā] \{1\}Ukrainian:móra (dial.) `nightmare, house-spirit' [f ā]Czech:můra \{4\} `nightmare, mythological creature that suffocates people in their sleep, moth' [f ā]Slovak:Polish:mora (dial.) `nightly spirit that attacks people and horses in their sleep, nightly apparition, nightmare' [f ā]Slovincian:mùora (dial.) `nightmare, its female personification' [f ā]Serbo-Croatian:mòra `nightmare' [f ā] \{2\};Čak. Morȁ (Orbanići) `[personified] nightmare, female phantom (appears early in the morning, walks with the sound of a cat tripping;makes a habit of sitting on people's throats and nearly suffocating them' [f ā]Slovene:móra `nightmare, owl' [f ā] \{3\}Bulgarian:morá `nightmare' [f ā]Indo-European reconstruction: mor-eh₂Certainty: +Page in Pokorny: 735-736Comments: The image of a (female) ghost who induces nightmares is apparently common to Slavic, Germanic and, possibly, Celtic. The root of this creature's name is unclear. Pokorny assumes a connection with *mer- `aufreiben, reiben; packen, rauben', which is not entirely convincing. For a discussion of the relationship between *mora and *mara, see s.v. *mara.Other cognates:OIr. mor-rígain `goddess of the battlefield, female demon' [f] \{5\}Notes:\{1\} The noun also occurs in Ru. kikímora m/f `house-sprite that spins at night'. \{2\} The folkloristic belief that the mora is an evil female creature (witch, sorceress) is mentioned in Karadžić's dictionary (cf. the form from Orbanići). \{3\} There is a variant mȏra `nightmare, house-spirit, creature that at night suffocates people in their sleep and harms animals' ( Slovar slovenskega jezika II: 238. \{4\} In dialects, we find a variant mora.
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