Matt Pearson wrote:
> Here are my guesses, together with the half-facetious, half-serious
> reasons for my choices:
>
> clasant red (has a bold, vibrant sound)
> sharf black (has a brutal sound)
> sayl yellow (has a sallow sound)
> plenin green (has a sensible sound)
> sint blue-green (has a 'scintillating' sound)
> murud brown (has an earthy sound)
> lath blue (has a comforting sound)
> celif pink (has a coy sound)
> yev white (has a no-nonsense sound)
> sharday purple (has a whimsical sound)
Here's mine:clasant = red
sharf = black
sayl = yellow
plenin = blue
sint = blue green
murud = brown (sounds like maroon or muddy)
lath = pink
celif = white (ceiling?)
yev = green
sharday = purple (sounds like a wine)
> Here's my counter-challenge: Do the same with the Tokana colour
> words given below. (To those who have copies of the Tokana-to-English
> dictionary, no fair cheating!)
>
> has brown
> kulhe blue
> kote light grey, blue-grey
> sane yellow
> lohne green
> hemak black
> lune dark grey
> laite red
> hiem white
has = whitekulhe = black
kote = red
sane = blue
lohne = brown
hemak = green
lune = dark grey
laite = light gray
hiem = yellow
> No words for pink or purple...
>
> Matt.
>
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> Matt Pearson
> mpearson@ucla.edu
> UCLA Linguistics Department
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> Los Angeles, CA 90095-1543
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