Re: Color morphemes
| From: | Herman Miller <hmiller@...> |
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| Date: | Friday, August 30, 2002, 4:58 |
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On Wed, 28 Aug 2002 18:28:32 +0200, Pavel Adamek <pavel.adamek@...>
wrote:
>> - pink/magenta
>> - RED
>> - orange
>> - brown/tan
>> - YELLOW
>> - green
>> - cyan/azure
>> - BLUE/INDIGO
>> - purple/violet
>
>I think that "pink" means "pale red".
>"Brown" is "dark yellow, orange or red".
Pink can be light red without necessarily being pale, and tan is a light
shade of brown. Probably the more relevant distinction for brown is low
saturation. In any case, many languages have a basic word for brown, while
"cyan" is a technical term not likely to be recognized (at least by most
English speakers) as a distinct color.
>Colour is 3-dimensional,
>so there should be also morphemes for its components:
>"hue", "saturation" and "intensity".
>
>I think that
>2 words for levels of saturation ("pale" and "deep")
>and 2 words for levels of intensity ("dark" and "light")
>will suffice.
You could even get by with 3 words: if a color is dark, its saturation is
less noticeable, while light colors could be divided into "pale" and
"bright". Jarda combines saturation and value into a single suffix, with
six possible suffixes representing different combinations (see the chart at
http://www.io.com/~hmiller/jpg/color-suffixes.jpg). These optional suffixes
can be added to one of 14 basic words for hues, for a total of 98 named
colors (http://www.io.com/~hmiller/gif/colors.gif). For even more precise
identification the suffixes can be combined two at a time to identify a
color in the boundary area between two colors. In all, the Jarda color
system can give names to 679 different colors, although most of them are
never used (see http://www.io.com/~hmiller/lang/Jarda/vocabulary.html for
details).
When representing the 14 basic Jarda hues in English, I call them red,
copper, orange, gold, yellow, lime, green, turquoise, cyan, azure, blue,
purple, magenta, and pink.
(Tirelat has a simpler, and much less systematic, set of colors:
http://www.io.com/~hmiller/png/tirelhat-colors.png)
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