Re: Quest for colours: what's basic then?

Hello!

I wasn't able to check my emails yesterday because I had loads to do for
school. I haven't checked Conlang for today either.

From: "Henrik Theiling" <theiling@...>
Sent: Wednesday, April 21, 2004 11:21 PM
Subject: Quest for colours: what's basic then?

> Hi!
>
> Following the discussion about colours, I wanted to know how many
> basic terms German has.  I don't know.  Yet.
>
> At least, I found 'türkis', which is a clearly a different colour than
> 'grün' and 'blau'.  It's in between.  I would, intuitively, categorise
> it as basic because no other color term applies to 'türkis'.
'Türkis' is Turquoise in English ... Is *that* Welsh "glas"? However,
that's a pretty intersting question for conlanging in my opinion. Maybe
'basic' terms also depend on which colours you are able to see, cf.
Javier BF, Alien colour spaces and stuff (Saturday, March 6, 2004,
11:19am).

Carsten