Siljan (lake) Siljan (lake) Siljan, in Dalarna in central Sweden, is Sweden's sixth largest lake. The cumulative area of Siljan and the adjacent, smaller lakes Orsasjön and Insjön is . Siljan reaches a maximum depth of , and its surface is situated above sea level. The largest town on its shore is Mora. The lake is located around the southwestern perimeter of the Siljan Ring (Swedish: "Siljansringen"), a circular geological formation which was formed 377 million years ago in the Devonian by a major meteorite impact. The original crater, now mostly eroded, is estimated to have been about 52 km (32 mi)
Mora (linguistics) "heavy" foot and a ""laghu"" / "light" foot. The reason is that the conjoined consonants 'rt' render the normally light 'ka' syllable heavy. Mora (linguistics) A mora (plural "morae" or "moras"; often symbolized μ) is a unit in phonology that determines syllable weight, which in some languages determines stress or timing. The definition of a mora varies. In 1968, American linguist James D. McCawley defined it as "something of which a long syllable consists of two and a short syllable consists of one". The term comes from the Latin word for "linger, delay", which was also used to translate the