Re: Moten's way of naming colours

At 11:56 AM 5/25/99 -0700, you wrote:
>>>         Well, as I said, here is the way we name colours in Moten.
>>>
>>>         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
colour of
>>> some known objects.
>
>The Tokana colour-term system is pretty boring:
[tokana deleted]

So is the Kelen, except that I deliberately put in lots of colors because I
like colors. I simply cut and pasted the list, so I hope all the accent
marks and such are readable.

r=E1=E9l        white, snow color
sh=E9   black, color of the night sky
=F3lne  gray
n=E9l   red
n=E9=FA=F1      light red, pink
=E9n=E9j        red-brown
s=FAr   orange
=E9jke  brown, flesh tone
w=FAl   light brown
l=F3    yellow, gold, sunshine
c=E9lne light yellow, blonde, silver
n=FA=E1l        yellow-green, new growth
m=E1l   green
=EDlpe  brown-green, hazel
h=E1    blue-green, color of the ocean
=FAn    blue
c=F3r   light blue, day sky color
=E1st=E1        purple-blue, another night sky color
t=E1sh  purple
ti=E9l  light purple
s=EDw   purple-red


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