Re: CHAT: Orange

The story that I've heard was that Issac Newton, upon discovering (or
using) the prism, saw light as being split into six colors (red, orange,
yellow, green, blue and purple/violet.  However, as seven was a much
luckier number than six, he threw in indigo to make the numbers right.

ObConlang:  Eviendadhail divides the spectrum up into five basic colors,
the names of only two of which I can remember off the top of my head:
Red (|ar|, /ar/), orange/yellow, yellow/green, blue/green (|cwean|,
|kwe.an|)(which is also used for the color we would call pure blue) and
blue/violet (which has a /v/ in it somewhere...)

-M

Nik Taylor wrote:
>
> And as for the rainbow, how on Earth do they get 7 colors out of it?  I
> can only see, at most, 5 - red, orange, yellow, green, blue, and of
> those, orange I rarely see.