nahuatl color terms

[Michael McCafferty]

Quoting Magnus Pharao Hansen <magnuspharao at gmail.com>:

>
> I noticed one clear cognate though: "pa" the nahuatl root for "color" seems
> to have originally meant "red" vis a vis the cognates in Cora and Hopi. The
> relation of red as the prototypical "color" is well known throughout the
> worlds languages e.g. in spanish "colorado". If someone wnts to read the
> best analysis of colors in Nahuatl, and UA and mesoamerica go for McLaurys
> Mesoamerican Color Terms.
>

Thank you for mentioning these facts, Magnus, as they seems to dovetail 
with the reality in the Illinois language.

Michael

>
> Magnus
>
>
>> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
>> From: Michael McCafferty <mmccaffe at indiana.edu>
>> To: nahuatl at lists.famsi.org
>> Date: Thu, 12 Nov 2009 07:33:29 -0500
>> Subject: Re: [Nahuat-l] nahuatl colors
>> Here are the coordinates for the Hill's paper on PUA colors:
>>
>> http://www.jstor.org/stable/30029256?cookieSet=1
>>
>>
>> Michael
>>
>>
>>
>



_______________________________________________
Nahuatl mailing list
Nahuatl at lists.famsi.org
http://www.famsi.org/mailman/listinfo/nahuatl