Re: Mauve and a related conlang question

Clint Jackson Baker <litrex1@...> wrote:
> Okay, now here's a conlang question--how do your
> conlangs deal with colour?
    Gladilatian has for basic colors:

sno     red to yellow-orange
fana    yellow to blue-green
hna     blue to blue-violet
vso     violet to ultraviolet

    These are adjectives. The nouns are formed with the suffix (h)ot:
_snohot_, _fanaot_, _hnaot_, and _vsohot_.  Gladifers see a slightly larger
range of the spectrum than humans, which is why _vso_ extends into the
ultraviolet.  These can be modified by _akr_, "high", meaning towards the
low frequency end of the spectrum, and _lrakr_ "low", meaning towards the
high frequency end of the spectrum, so _akr_sno_ is "red", more or less.
Note that the Gladilatian use of "high" and "low" here is opposite of the
English description of frequency.  It is believed that the Gladilatian
terms came from the rainbow.  (I.e. in the fictional world that's believed,
as omniscient narrator I know that's true.)
    The neutral colors are _wat_ "white", _fne_ "black", and _wla_wat_
"gray", literally "dark white".

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