Re: Colors (Was: Re: Mauve and a related conlang question)

Siyo!
Ihekwike H. S. Teoh:
>
> Those who have read some of my posts may realize
> that these color names
> are cognate with ... well, just about everything in
> the language :-) For
> example, the direction words, which came up in the
> last vocab, are:
>         katui'  (front, north)
>         cutui'  (left,  southwest)
>         rotui'  (right, southeast)
>
Kayasanoda uses the metaphorical form (meaning you
slip the particle -de- before the last root to make it
literal) to describe the compass points (I'm parsing
w/o using the Kaya words):
blue.point =north
red.point =south
white.point =east
black.point =west
This comes from a Cherokee representation of the
compass.  Blue represents cold, red heat, white facing
the sunrise, black away from the sunrise.  North is
variously depicted as purple or blue but Cherokee only
has a word for blue.

Other things may come about as I research--things are
already bubbling in my head for Kayasanoda 2.0.

Dana
Clint


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