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Letf / Right, was Re: Count and mass nouns:Re:Red

From:John L. Leland <lelandconlang@...>
Date:Sunday, January 25, 2004, 17:45
In a message dated 1/22/04 12:14:54 AM Pacific Standard Time,
herodote92@YAHOO.COM writes:

<< Common explanation would rather be: something with the
 colour of fire, or (human) blood (see Wierzbicka). >>
In Rihana-ye, the common word for red is bamali, which is in fact
human-blood-color
(literally man-water-color, where man-water is the word for blood.)

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Costentin Cornomorus <elemtilas@...>