Re: What counts as a basic color word?

[maIk r\out]

> 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.
Is that like the difference between yellow and blond in English?

Jake