Color Terms (Re: Cherokee term for 'china clay')
Koontz John E
John.Koontz at colorado.edu
Mon Jul 17 10:33:10 UTC 2006
On Sun, 16 Jul 2006, [ISO-8859-1] A.W. Tüting wrote:
> Oh, I see, you're NOT referring to grue (grue + t etc.) ;-)
'Grue' is the invented word for a color term that covers the 'blue' and
'green' ranges.
> ... going together with 'sky', qing is 'blue/azure', with
> 'hill/mountain' it's 'green' etc. It doesn't really stand for 'black'
> but for a deep greyish violet or such.
It sounds bit like OP xude (Da xota) in the last instance.
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