color terms

[Anthony Grant]

As I understand it, Cherokee /yonega/ is also used as the term for
'white man' and is the term used for 'English' on the front cover of
Feeling and Pulte's Cherokee-English Dictionary.  I've seen the form
'yowanega', too - is that plural?  (My knowledge of Cherokee is less
than a smattering.)

Most varieties of Chinese I know about have pai/pak for 'white'.

Not only Romance languages have borrowed basic color terms (though
hthey do seem to have shed a lot of the earlier Latin terminology; a
similar fate befell cardinal direction terms); Armernian took 'black'
and 'white' from Parthian.  

Anthony
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