Re: More stuff on colours
| From: | John Leland <lelandconlang@...> |
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| Date: | Tuesday, October 26, 2004, 5:37 |
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In a message dated 10/17/04 4:56:36 PM Pacific Daylight Time,
treborjung@FREE.FR writes:
<< e word for 'red', for example, would be a
compound meaning something like 'blood-coloured' >>
As I noted in my report on Rihana-ye colors, this isalso true of Rihana-ye.
The most common word for read bamali does mean bloodcolored.
(Literally man-water-bright, but bama man-water is the word for blood, and
the adj. li bright is the normal suffix for colors.)
John Leland