Re: What counts as a basic color word?

There's another Welsh word for green, which is 'ir', and brown also intrudes
on 'coch' (red). Ir is in there more or less alongside gwyrdd, but it just
refers (referred?) to different materials that are green, rather than a
spectrum difference, a phenomenon (which surely just can't be confined to
Welsh!) that Berlin and Kay make no mention of, which is strange bearing in
mind their anthropological slant.
Mike
----- Original Message -----
From: "Chris Bates" <christopher.bates@...>
To: <CONLANG@...>
Sent: Thursday, April 03, 2003 9:37 AM
Subject: Re: What counts as a basic color word?


> the list of 11 basic colours they suggested by the way:
>
> White <- red <- Green <- Blue <-  Brown <- Purple
> Black                 Yellow                                  Pink
>
Orange
>                                                                       Grey
>
> And how welsh used to divide the green brown part of the spectrum:
>
>      green       |  blue |     grey       |  brown
> ---------------------------------------
> gwyrdd  |         glas          |    llwyd
>
> I just got this out of one of my books, so if its wrong please tell me
> and I'll make a note somewhere lol.
>
> Chris.

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