Colors in Dakota

[Violet Catches]

Luta is the sky at dawn and dusk to mean that color or shades of red...luta
is also the sacred color, which a wet paint is used to make it red
Sha is anything that is already  red
VIolet






>From: ROOD DAVID S <rood at spot.Colorado.EDU>
>Reply-To: siouan at lists.colorado.edu
>To: siouan at lists.colorado.edu
>Subject: Re: Colors in Dakota
>Date: Tue, 25 Mar 2003 08:14:39 -0700 (MST)
>
>
>The continuum from zi to ji (z^i, zhi) to gi is likewise an arbitrary one.
>Here texture also plays a part in the way people assign a particular
>perception to a word.  I don't know the details on this one very well, but
>the English words blond, yellow, brown, tan, and pale cover essentially
>the same space, though with different breaks.
>
>A Dakota/Lakota example where that language makes finer distinctions than
>does English is "white", which is either ska or saN, though those are not
>interchangeable in D/Lakota.
>
>I have never been able to get anyone to tell me the difference between sha
>and luta for 'red', however, except to say that "luta" is restricted to
>ceremonial contexts and/or names.
>
>David S. Rood
>Dept. of Linguistics
>Univ. of Colorado
>295 UCB
>Boulder, CO 80309-0295
>USA
>rood at colorado.edu
>
>On Tue, 25 Mar 2003, Louis Garcia wrote:
>
> > Also why sometimes you will see the color brown (gi) translated as
>yellow? Ex: Nakpagi for Yellow Ear.
> > Toksta ake,
> > Louie Garcia
>


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