The mora (meerv mora / morae) is a unit by which the length or weight of a syllable is measured based on the nucleus and the coda (together they form the rhyme). In turn, things like emphasis, rhythm and duration are all the same.
There is no clearly defined definition of mora. In 1968, an American linguist described it as "something of which a long syllable consists of two parts and a short syllable from one." etymology
The word "mora" is derived from the Latin word morari, which means "hesitate, dral". Description
A syllable with only one mora is called monomorphic (light / short), an epic with two moras bimoraic (heavy / long), and a three-dimensional trimora (super heavy / syllable) syllable. This last type of syllable is very common, but in, for example, the Vedic Sanskrit.
The anlaut of a syllable never represents a mora. The following syllables are moral: Also see
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