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in reply to a message by Sofia
Morana reminds me of moron, which means a stupid person. Maybe the word doesn't have a Slavic root. It sounds closer to mort, the French word. Is there another (lessr known) language that could have influenced it?
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Oh, I think the root is proto-Slavic (we're talking pre-Europe Slavic tribes), it's just that in modern Croatian the words have developed from other languages. You do find it in words like 'umoriti' (get tired), 'noćna mora' (nightmare) and dialectal 'moriti' (to kill), but they're not connected to the name Morana in people's minds. Also, with Eastern Slavs (Russians, Belarus and Ukrainians) she was the goddess of fertility and women, so quite positive.
I think Morana is more connected to Morena and Marina, which got popular about the same time. Oh, and Morana is also a river name here.
More about Morana here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marzanna
Oh, I think the root is proto-Slavic (we're talking pre-Europe Slavic tribes), it's just that in modern Croatian the words have developed from other languages. You do find it in words like 'umoriti' (get tired), 'noćna mora' (nightmare) and dialectal 'moriti' (to kill), but they're not connected to the name Morana in people's minds. Also, with Eastern Slavs (Russians, Belarus and Ukrainians) she was the goddess of fertility and women, so quite positive.
I think Morana is more connected to Morena and Marina, which got popular about the same time. Oh, and Morana is also a river name here.
More about Morana here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marzanna
This message was edited 9/8/2010, 5:42 PM
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It does sound like Morena and Marina, now that you mention it, but moron pops into my mind first.
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