Re: NATLANG: Colours

Philippe Caquant (replying to me) wrote:
> Yes, I think that Russian "krasnyj" (red) and
> "krasivyj" (beautiful), "krasota" (beauty) were
> related in the past, at least I have read something
> like that somewhere...
The Czech word for beautiful is "krasn_" (where
"_" denotes the adjective's declension's ending).
And its adverbial form (meaning nice/nicely) is
"krasne" (where the 'e' has a hacek).

Their word for red is "cerven_" (where 'c' has a
hacek).  Does Russian have any related word?

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