LL-L: "Color terms" LOWLANDS-L, 21.FEB.2001 (05) [E]

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From: Marco Evenhuis [evenhuis at zeelandnet.nl]
Subject: LL-L: "Color terms" LOWLANDS-L, 21.FEB.2001 (02) [E/LS]

Ron wrote:

> Blue is special.  Perhaps this way "gray" came to be generalized as
"blue."

Could be, especially if you look at the objects that are referred to when
using the word 'blue' for (a shade of) grey. I mentioned earlier that in
Zeeuws everything stretching from bright blue to dark grey is called
'blaeuw' and that plain, dull colours are described as 'graeuw'. But there
is an example I remembered hearing earlier this week that puzzles me: the
colour of milk that was mixed with water to, let's say increase farmers'
income, was also called 'blaeuw'. But this colour doesn't fit the
description above: it's not a bright, clear colour. Therefore, I would have
expected to be called 'graeuw'...

Some other colors in Zeeuws then:

wit (bright white)
bleik (off-white, so not only used to describe pale)
oeranje (orange)
roôd (red)
geluw (yellow)
groeen (green)
bruun (brown)
zwart (black)
gries (grey)
...

regards,

Marco

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