Re: eye-colour

Quoting Dennis Paul Himes <himes@...>:

> Daniel Andreasson Vpc-Work <daniel.andreasson@...> wrote:
> >
> > I have green eyes as well, but not hazel/brownish
> > green, but an even soft green, more towards yellow.
> >
> > They do NOT change color according to mood, though. :)
>
>     Mine are blue, and do not change, although I once dated a girl
> whose
> eyes underwent an amazing range of variation.
>     I answered this OT post because it's so easy to add the ObConlang
> bit:
> In Gladilatian "blue eyes" is "hna fsuwyet".  The "fsu" there
> specifically
> means "two", or "a pair of", which is what gladifers would use to refer
> to a
> human's eyes.  (They themselves have four eyes each.)  Gladilatian
> color
> terms do not correspond exactly to English ones, but my eyes would
> definitely be "hna".  Green eyes, "more towards yellow", would be
> "fana
> fsuwyet".  "Fana" covers everything from yellow to blue-green.
In Tairezazh, "blue eyes" translate as _shodhen skeiv_, consisting of _shodh_
[SOD] "eye", the pl ending _-(e)n_ and _skeiv_ "blue", the later having
approximately the same semantic range as the English term.

It may interest nobody that _Daiven Shodin Skeiv_, or "Houses of Blue Eyes",
is the name of a Tairezan construction company/organization, which is involved
in some rather ... suspect dealings with regard to the reconstruction after
the recent Altaian war. This story has absolutely nothing to do with the
controversy regarding Iraqi reconstruction - it was concocted well over a year
ago. The DSS's "logotype" is a stylized blue eye with lengthy lashes.

                                                         Andreas

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