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A-Z 665Soikane-Trapāne, M. 1987. Latvian basic and topical vocabulary/Latviešu valodas pamata untematisks vārdu krājums (3rd printing). Lincoln, NE.Turkina, E. 1963. Latvian—English dictionary/ Latviešu-Anglu vārdnīca, ed. M. Andersone. (3rdedn, repr.) Riga.Etymological dictionaryKarulis, K. 1992. Latviešuvārdnīca, 2 vols. Riga.law of three morae [Lat. mora ‘timenecessary’] (also law of three syllables)1 Law that governs stress relationships in Greek, according to which no more than threeunstressed morae (=the unit of measurement for a short syllable; mora) may followthe main stressed syllable of a word.2 Hypothesis in Indo-European linguistics that attempts to explain the long finalvowels of Gothic, according to which in Indo-European and Proto-Germanic longvowels in secondary syllables had two morae with acute and three morae with circumflexaccent 2 . Vowels of three morae in final syllables came about especially by contraction,e.g. in the genitive singular of IE ā: *g h eb h âs