Re: You have a word for it?
| From: | Nik Taylor <fortytwo@...> |
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| Date: | Saturday, January 26, 2002, 20:55 |
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Christophe Grandsire wrote:
> Since "ku|lu" is used with names of people or nations to refer to their
> language, it has been wondered whether "moten" could refer to a nation, a
> tribe, a clan, or whatever group of people, but no people on Earth seem to call
> themselves this way. And the colour derives is quite obscure... purple-skinned
> people? :)) Yet the only known speaker of this language is human, as far as we
> can tell, and doesn't have purple skin.
Some sort of color-symbolism? Like the "purple = royal" connotation
here? Royal language, Royal color? :-)
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