Re: Sounds like...

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 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

No words for pink or purple...

Matt.

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Matt Pearson
mpearson@ucla.edu
UCLA Linguistics Department
405 Hilgard Avenue
Los Angeles, CA 90095-1543
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