Color terms and consonant symbolism

[Anthony Grant]

Folks: for me the 'first stop' is Johanna Nichols' article on this in Language in (about) 1970.  She explores this issue in some detail (concentrating on languages of the Far West), and does use some data from Lakhota or Santee, I forget which.  The book on sound symbolism that Leanne Hinton coedited is also germane to this.

I recall from the 90s that Hanis Coos, of coastal Oregon, has /puus/ 'cat' (an English loan rather than one from Chinook Jargon pi$pi$) and its expected equivalent /puuk/ for 'kitten' - an interesting case of such a change affecting a loanword.

Anthony



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