Moras in English, French, German, Spanish, ...

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when do linguists talk about Moras in English, French, German, Spanish, ... ?

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HOBO ............. Additional claims about the word's origin include derivations from the Japanese word “houbou” meaning, in reference to travel, “various places”, and from the Spanish word jobo, meaning, in the Cuban phrase correr jobos, “truancy”. Some Hobos claim it stands for Helping our Brothers out.


-------- this Jp word [houbou] has 4 moras.

the 2-mora word [hobo] is ...

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%E3%81%BB%E3%81%BC#Japanese
ほぼ
1. approx. [ほぼ 同じ] hobo onaji (about the same)

2. 保母: day-care worker in a kindergarten


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have you written an essay or paper that's Layman-friendly?
( thanks... i'll look them up... i was refering to
any publication related to ling. or languages)


speaking of off-the-wall Etymologizing ...

my pet theory (not my original) is that (Am.Eng.) HOBO comes from Jp adverb meaning [Here and there]

------------- In Japanese, hobo is plural form of ho 'side'. In the plural it takes the meaning 'all sides' or 'everywhere'. (or [all directions])



https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/hobo#Etymology

https://www.etymonline.com/word/hobo

hobo (n.) -------- "a tramp," 1889, Western U.S., of unknown origin. Barnhart compares early 19c. English dialectal hawbuck "lout, clumsy fellow, country bumpkin." Or possibly from ho, boy, a workers' call on late 19c. western U.S. railroads. Facetious formation hobohemia, "community or life of hobos," is from 1923 (see bohemian).

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Hobo fruit / Jobo fruit

https://www.growables.org/information/TropicalFruit/spondias.htm

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From the Old English period through to today, all content words must be at least two morae long.
------------- i knew this one.


in English, a syllable can contain a maximum of 4 moras.
------------- maybe i knew this one, earlier.

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Iirc I saw a mora in Tokyo Japan Sea Aquarium.

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Oops, that was a mola, not a mora.

Question on Quora: How is a mola (sunfish) not just a giant meal for sharks and other predators? https://www.quora.com/How-is-a-mola-sunfish-not-just-a-giant-meal-for-sharks-and-other-predators?ch=15&oid=61668832&share=2f3c46b2&srid=RPhZF&target_type=question

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thakns... TIL that mora and mola are both fish(es)


Mora moro, the common mora, is a deep-sea fish, the only species in the genus Mora. It is found worldwide in temperate seas, at depths of between 300 and ...



A sunfish (or mola) is any fish in the Mola genus (family Molidae). The fish develop their truncated, bullet-like shape because the back fin, ...


マンボウのイラスト。ocean sunfish 画像、イラスト図鑑。 ... このときの真横になった姿が太陽のようだということでSun fish なのだとか。