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Re: Moten's way of naming colours

From:Hawksinger <hawksinger@...>
Date:Saturday, May 22, 1999, 15:08
Christophe Grandsire wrote:
>=20 > Well, as I said, here is the way we name colours in Moten. >=20 > Colours in Moten have no name by themselves. There is only the =
word 'va':
> colour, which can be used in compounds to name colours, after the colou=
r of
> some known objects. >=20
Feorran is somewhat similar, I quote here what the Concise Grammar=20 of Feorran has to say on the subject; "Almost all Feorran color terms are derived from nominals by means of the derivational suffix, [-jin]. Feorran only has three natural color terms (all of which are abstract nouns);=20 las 'red, blood colored'=20 pak 'white, clear'=20 tiuq 'black, dark'=20 t=EBqzojin 'sky-colored, i.e. blue'=20 leoqkejin 'sea-colored, i.e. blue-green'=20 eoqkajin 'ornamental-feathers-on-an-Emperor-Penguin-colored, i.e. yellow' " --=20 Brad Coon hawksinger@fwi.com listowner battleship-l http://www.geocities.com/Yosemite/Gorge/7264/battleship-l.html http://www.ipfw.indiana.edu/east1/coon/web/index.htm (home pg. et al.) http://www.geocities.com/Yosemite/Gorge/7264 (outdoor and prim.skills) http://members.tripod.com/~Hawksinger (wine and whisky pgs) Civilize the mind and make savage the body. (Chinese proverb)