Re: Color system
| From: | Pascal A. Kramm <pkramm@...> |
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| Date: | Sunday, October 17, 2004, 13:59 |
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On Fri, 15 Oct 2004 14:06:23 +0200, Carsten Becker
<naranoieati@...> wrote:
>For Ayeri, I haven't made up color terms yet, except
>"maca" (white, light, shining), "macárya" (opposite of
>"maca"), "avirang" (golden) and "idian" (silver). I thought
>that green should be a basic colour, too, because the Ayeri
>people lives in a rain forest, where the green of trees and
>plants is of course dominating.
I think they would have probably a lot of base words all meaning "green" to
describe all the different shades of green they're exposed to every day
(just like the eskimos have lots of words which all mean "snow").
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Pascal A. Kramm, author of Choton
official Choton homepage:
http://www.choton.org
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