Re: What counts as a basic color word?
| From: | David Barrow <davidab@...> |
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| Date: | Friday, April 4, 2003, 21:02 |
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Danny Wier wrote:
> From: "João Ricardo Oliveira" <hokstein@...>
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> > 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.)
bermellón or bermillón
rojo is the usual word for red
David Barrow
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