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Re: NATLANG: Colours

From:Racsko Tamas <tracsko@...>
Date:Monday, April 26, 2004, 9:36
On 26 Apr 2004 Nik Taylor <yonjuuni@...> wrote:

> Yet, in very many language, _red_ translates literally as > _blood-color_
In Hungarian, the spectrum of "red" is divided into two groups: a deeper _vo:ro:s_ (lit. 'blood-like') and a more vivid _piros_ (lit. 'aurora-like, dawn-like').