Mora knife Mora knife A mora knife () is a range of small sheath knife similar in design to the Finnish puukko. It is a fixed blade knife, with or without a finger guard. The term originates from knives manufactured by the cutleries in Mora, Dalarna, Sweden, but has later come to refer to similar style knives by other brands as well. In Sweden and Finland, Mora knives are extensively used in construction and in industry as general-purpose tools. Mora knives are also used by all Scandinavian armies as an everyday knife. Mora knives were mostly produced by the KJ Eriksson and
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