Re: What counts as a basic color word?

Michael Poxon:
> There may be a morphological angle to this too: maybe basic colour terms
are
> those that behave as single morphemes
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"...

João Ricardo Oliveira

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