Re: What counts as a basic color word?

Well the English word "blonde" is only used for hair and wood. Other things that
color are gold or beige or yellow or anything but blonde.

Adam
 michael poxon <m.poxon@...> wrote: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
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From: "Chris Bates"
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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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