Re: Moten's way of naming colours

Christophe Grandsire <Christophe.Grandsire@...> wrote:
> ... do you fellow conlangers have such systems to name colours?
    Gladilatian has four basic colors, roughly as follows.

sno:    red to yellow-orange
fana:   yellow to blue-green
hna:    blue to blue-purple
vso:    purple to ultraviolet

    These can be modified by _akr_ "high", meaning towards the low =
frequency
end of the spectrum, and _lrakr_ "low", meaning towards the high =
frequency
end of the spectrum, so _akr_sno_ is "red", more or less.  Note that the
Gladilatian use of "high" and "low" here is opposite of the English
description of frequency.  It is believed that the Gladilatian terms came
from the rainbow.
    The neutral colors are _wat_ "white", _fne_ "black", and _wla_wat_
"gray", literally "dark white".

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             Dennis Paul Himes    <>    dennis@himes.connix.com
             homepage: http://www.connix.com/~dennis/dennis.htm
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