tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Mon Dec 04 08:39:59 1995
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Re: Colors? What colors?
>Date: Sun, 3 Dec 1995 22:03:59 -0800
>From: [email protected]
>In a message dated 95-11-29 16:42:22 EST, you write:
>>shachor, lavan, adom,
>>kachol, yarok, tzahov, katom, segol, chum, varod, afor
>plus adamdam, zahav, kesef, and maybe more.
I didn't count those for the same reason we don't count "gold", "silver",
"vermillion" etc as basic color-words in English. "zahav" and "kesef" are
names of the metals, and "adamdam" is a derivation of "adom" (y'rakrak is a
derivation from yarok also, etc).
~mark