Re: lexicon

Cool!  Lrahran has 20 some odd "basic", i.e. non-derived color-terms
(including about five different term for different kinds of black!).  I love
color too.

After I went all out with Lrahran I decided to be more conservative with my
color terms in Graavgaaln but to carve the spectrum up differently from
English.  Parts of "orange" fall in with parts of "brown" and "red".  Part
of "orange" falls in with the rest of "brown" and "yellow".  "White"
includes some of what English would call "beige" or "grey".  Other parts of
"grey" end up with "blue" and part ends up in "black".  I believe "aqua" got
a seperate basic term from those for "blue" or "green", but I seem to
remember that "purple" was subsumed in "blue".

Adam


>From: David Peterson <DigitalScream@...>
>Reply-To: Constructed Languages List <CONLANG@...>
>To: CONLANG@LISTSERV.BROWN.EDU
>Subject: Re: lexicon
>Date: Wed, 4 Apr 2001 14:24:53 EDT
>
>In a message dated 4/4/01 7:33:36 AM, dreamertwo@HOTMAIL.COM writes:
>
><< Me too.  Word creation is the whole point of the exercise to me.  I love
>some of my odd lexiclaizations.   >>
>
>My first language has over 100 color terms, and growing.  I have a separate
>noun form for colors, so I take the noun "tree" and put it into color form
>meaning "tree-colored".  But aside from noun colors and normal colors, I
>decided to go ahead and include all the old color terms found in the
>languages of (usually) people of unindustrialized countries.  Like, a term
>for any color from black to blue to green (like the color of the ocean), a
>color for green and yellow and brown (like the color of a forest) or the
>color for blue purple red and orange (like the color of a sunset).  Ah,
>color...  I love it.
>
>-David
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