Re: Synaesthesia

On Sat, 28 Dec 2002 09:20:29 -0800 Joseph Fatula <fatula3@...>
writes:

<snip>

> Speaking of color words, I found that two of my languages had almost
> identical words for red, despite the fact that their phonologies and
> creations were incredibly separated.  Here's a list of color words I
> chose
> for their onomatopoeic (sort of) properties.  They all sound like
> the color
> to me, at least partly.  What colors do they sound like to any of
> you?  The
> sounds are all standard Roman alphabet, c and g being /k/ and /g/,
> th is
> /T/.  All of them are stressed on the first syllable.
>
> valien
white

> megraur
green

> caelian
yellow

> seuthul
blue

> caret
red

> urgom
black

Robert Wilson
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