Re: What counts as a basic color word?
| From: | Danny Wier <dawier@...> |
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| Date: | Friday, April 4, 2003, 20:29 |
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From: "João Ricardo Oliveira" <hokstein@...>
> Only in Germanic languages, though. Portuguese has "vermelho" for "red"
and
> "amarelo" for "yellow", for instance, both basic colours. And we have no
> problem forming words from them: "amarelar", "amarelado", "avermelhado",
> "vermelhecer"...
Is there a Spanish word _*vermillo, -a_, or just _rojo, -a_? Since there's
an Amarillo, Texas, where's Vermillio? East Texas with all the red dirt?
(Severe OT-ness.)
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