Phonosemantics

[Ardis Eschenberg]

Re: The psychological link between vowels and colors, is this a link
felt/known by most Russians?  Is it similar to that between colors and
emotions (red is anger, blue is sad in English) or is it simply due to the
fact that these are the first vowels used in the color terms?
e.g. krAsniy = red
     sInniy = blue
     zEljoniy = green

Is jo thought to be yellow (zhOltiy)?
Or is it being proposed that these colors contain these sounds because of an
inherent property of the color/sound?
Curiously,
Ardis Eschenberg
University at Buffalo
UmoNhoN Nation Public School


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