Talk:Moroi

This article is rated Start-class on Wikipedia's content assessment scale. It is of interest to the following WikiProjects:

Mythology Low‑importance This article is supported by WikiProject Mythology. This project provides a central approach to Mythology-related subjects on Wikipedia. Please participate by editing the article, and help us assess and improve articles to good and 1.0 standards, or visit the WikiProject page for more details.MythologyWikipedia:WikiProject MythologyTemplate:WikiProject MythologyMythology Low This article has been rated as Low-importance on the project's importance scale. Romania Low‑importance This article is within the scope of WikiProject Romania, a collaborative effort to improve the coverage of Romania-related topics on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join the discussion and see a list of open tasks.RomaniaWikipedia:WikiProject RomaniaTemplate:WikiProject RomaniaRomania Low This article has been rated as Low-importance on the project's importance scale. To-do list: edit history watch purge Here are some tasks awaiting attention: Article requests : Help Romania reach at least GA-status Help History of Romania get WP:GOOD Request an article or create a missing one Assess : Assess all articles tagged for this project that have not been assessed for quality Cleanup : Review the Romania-related cleanup listing Normalize the use of "Northern Bukovina" (capitalized) and "Northern Bessarabia" (Bessarabian part of Chernivtsi Oblast) all over Wikipedia Disambiguation : Disambiguate project articles and get points Expand : Expand Postage stamps and postal history of Romania Translate : Translate Romania-related articles from the Romanian Wikipedia Translate and keep in sync with the project versions in other languages: Projet:Roumanie (in French), Proiect:România (in Romanian), Проект:Румыния (in Russian) Unreferenced : * Add more reference to FC CFR Timișoara. Other : Make use in articles of the newly contributed images (about 5800!!) from the Wiki Loves Monuments Romania 2011 (WLM Romania external site) Review newly created Romania-related articles Check the articles needing expert attention or other work, and help with some of the items Create Awards for WikiProject Romania Contribute photos related to Romania at Commons:WikiProject Romania. Organize Romania related images on Commons. See also media-related tasks Horror Low‑importance This article is within the scope of WikiProject Horror, an attempt to build a comprehensive and detailed guide to fictional horror in film, literature and other media on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, you can edit one of the articles mentioned below, or visit the project page, where you can join the project and contribute to the general Project discussion to talk over new ideas and suggestions.HorrorWikipedia:WikiProject HorrorTemplate:WikiProject Horrorhorror Low This article has been rated as Low-importance on the project's importance scale.

See also Talk:Moroii.

References:[1] and [2]. These links verify everything in the original Moroi stub for those who can read them. Alexander 007 08:56, 11 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

The Romanian Academy in its DEX 1998 says "cf. Sl. mora" in place of an etymology, which means "we're not sure or haven't decided on the etymology, but it may be connected to the Old Slavonic word, mora". It could be that this word was borrowed centuries ago from Slavonic, then its form and meaning ("nightmare"--->"vampire", "ghost") was modified until it became Romanian Moroi. Another possibility, the Romanian word is not from Slavonic mora, but may still derive from PIE *mer-, "to harm" via some Paleo-Balkan language. Whatever, that's the etymology as known so far. Alexander 007 09:18, 11 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Etymology (what can be sourced about it, anyway) has been noted in the article's introduction. Runa27 05:42, 30 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

There are versions of this article in three other languages. Not one of the articles appears to be completely standard, though as I don't speak fluent Russian, Romanian or Hebrew, all I can do is guess based on the apparent amount of text and number of subsections.

Interestingly, this may well be the the article with the largest amount of information - though the Russian version appears also to have one more section (and to perhaps have more information on the etymology; it internally links to the Russian version of Proto-Indo European in reference to mare, at any rate), so I dunno. But certainly the Hebrew and Romanian versions are extremely short and consist basically of what appears to be just an introduction of the briefest sort, and could probably use a little care (I'm surprised the Romanian one is that much shorter, actually, given that it's the native language for the culture that actually has moroi in its folklore, but then again, I know we've got an awful lot of English-speaking Romanians on this version of the Wiki, so...). Though the Hebrew version, interestingly enough, also references the Hebrew version of Solomonari, which implies something is there that isn't quite in the English version; whether or not it belongs, though, I can't tell. Runa27 05:42, 30 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

There is also a Magic: the Gathering Card called "Moroii". http://ww2.wizards.com/gatherer/index.aspx?term=moroii&Field_Name=on&Field_Rules=on&Field_Type=on&setfilter=All%20sets Could it be added to the references section, or does it violate copyright? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Subumloc (talk • contribs) 07:10, 1 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

The following line in the discussion as well as the line in the article that mentions "immortal" and "mortal" vampires I believe is referring to the book series Vampire Academy. I believe this should be removed from the article with maybe a popular culture reference section. I am not editing it myself since I do not know for sure that the immortal/mortal reference isn't part of Romanian myth. Since the whole topic is fiction, one assumes, specific legend or fictional definitions should be cited.--Psoregon (talk) 20:31, 26 August 2012 (UTC) Moroi is the coolest kind of Vampire in the world, but, they are not good at self defence, thats why there is something called Dhampir! —Preceding unsigned comment added by 90.184.58.237 (talk) 14:26, 19 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]