Re: Moten's way of naming colours
| From: | Irina Rempt-Drijfhout <ira@...> |
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| Date: | Tuesday, May 25, 1999, 20:55 |
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On Tue, 25 May 1999, Matt Pearson wrote:
> The Tokana colour-term system is pretty boring:
Beautiful words, though. Valdyan doesn't have everything yet, I come
up with colours as I need them.
hel - colour (in general)
helyn - a specific colour
helys - colourful, motley, many-coloured
host - white (as a heraldic colour also _shen_ "light"
craz - black (as a heraldic colour also _nashen_ "dark")
asel - grey, pale, drab (brownish grey)
lest - blue
myst - russet, red-brown; sorrel (of horses)
tamyst - reddish, ruddy; red-haired
farin - green
nyth - sandy, yellow, beige, ochre; blonde (of hair)
sedin - red
sol - gold ) names for the metals, also used
ven - silver ) for the colours
"Black" and "white" were among the very first words in the language,
with "grey" and "blue" not long after, but "red", "green" and the
rest came much later.
Irina
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