Color Terms (Re: Cherokee term for 'china clay')

[Koontz John E]

On Sun, 16 Jul 2006, [ISO-8859-1] A.W. Tüting wrote:
> Oh, I see, you're NOT referring to grue (grue + t etc.) ;-)

'Grue' is the invented word for a color term that covers the 'blue' and
'green' ranges.

> ... going together with 'sky', qing is 'blue/azure', with
> 'hill/mountain' it's 'green' etc. It doesn't really stand for 'black'
> but for a deep greyish violet or such.

It sounds bit like OP xude (Da xota) in the last instance.