Bears and why they mostly are called otherwise

[JoatSimeon at aol.com]

>mclasutt at brigham.net writes:

>There are many, many languages in the world that have no basic word for
>'brown', and, as Berlin and Kay have demonstrated, 'brown' is a late term to
>develop in color vocabulary.

-- ah, my fault.  I should have been clearer.  I think it's entirely academic
and pointless to distinguish between "primary" and other color terms.  We say
"orange"; the word is derived from the fruit, not vice-versa; is "orange"
then a "primary" color term, or not?  Who cares?

Likewise, PIE seems to have had a term for "bay-colored horse".  If its
speakers then referred to other things of similar color as "bay", so what?