Rainbow Connections: The Language of Colour

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The etymologies of the basic color terms takes us through hidden connections, poisons & medicines, dyes & pigments, inventions & scientific discoveries, and Homeric epics & monsters!
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@12tone 4 года назад

1:40: "We're just gonna talk about basic color terms." 29:28: "Speaking of insects and threats to the wheat supply..." I feel like that line encapsulates so much of what I love about this channel. Anyway, still got 20 minutes to go so Imma get back to watching, but keep up the good work, y'all.

@Alliterative 4 года назад

☺️ The opposite of a one-track mind...!

@patrickhodson8715 3 года назад

That really do be how it be 😂

@TheJamesM 4 года назад

I'm only eight minutes in so far, but the part on "amber" and "electron" reminds me of a bit of etymological trivia I picked up on Wikipedia: Icelandic is quite conservative with regard to loanwords, so when it comes to naming new concepts they sometimes resort to calques. Since "electron" and "electricity" derive from the Greek for amber, they turned to the Icelandic word for amber, "raf", giving them "rafeind" ("amber-particle") for electron, and "rafmagn" ("amber-power") for electricity. It's such a neat piece of trivia (to me) I wouldn't be surprised if it's been included in a previous video and I've just forgotten. Anyway, on with the rest of the video... EDIT: The origin of the word "gas" is fantastic!

@Alliterative 4 года назад

Oh, that’s very cool! New to me, so you didn’t get it from my video. :)

@Shanask487 4 года назад

I think thunder-power or even Thur-power sounds even better

@anavajic4449 4 года назад

very interesting, thank you!

@FelipePlattek 4 года назад

What a ride, thank you! One connection that I felt is missing: Alchemy comes from (or is influenced by) the old name of Egypt - Khemia, which means "black" land.

@Alliterative 4 года назад

Ah, very good, yes!

@signsarefortheconsciousmin3362 4 года назад

Black means pale

@advance600 4 года назад

Alliterative to start the day? Hell yes!

@sps6374 4 года назад

These heuristic knotted paths are exactly how my (maybe most people's ?) thought process works. It doesn't help staying on track, but it's so much more interesting that way ! And our host actually does a great job, wandering only as far as is all relevant to the subject. Keep it up, we love it !

@Alliterative 4 года назад

Thank you so much! It’s good to know it’s not just me. 😁

@rafaelarevalo8047 4 года назад

I love etymology. My heart is full of indescribable joy. Thank you!

@jonsey3645 4 года назад

This has been a roller coaster of brilliant education. Thank you!

@Alliterative 4 года назад

Thank you!

@user-ns3uv5jg8t 4 года назад

Fascinating stuff. Being a Russian native-speaker can't help noticing how many words from Proto Indo European managed to live on in the Russian language: 1. PIE "dver" (a door) is still dver' 2. PIE "zarna" (gold) really reminds me of an old Russian word "zarnitsa" meaning "heat lightning" which I guess can give off a golden glow 3. PIE "bhel" from which the words for "white" descended, also remained in Russian as "beliy" (white)

@OmegaWolf747 4 года назад

What an amazing polychromy of words!

@Alliterative 4 года назад

😊🌈

@Jumpoable 3 года назад

This was too much epic linguistic/ cultural/ scientific/ history nerdity. LOVED it. Thank you sir.

@Alliterative 3 года назад

Glad you enjoyed it!

@viciousrodent 2 года назад

This is the best video I have ever found to watch at 2x speed on a day I am out of my ADHD medication.

@Langwidere903 3 года назад

I love that you talked about the connection between Amber and Electrons because in His Dark Materials, this is switched. They have “ambaric” lights instead of electric, and the orange sap that we call amber is called “electer”

@Alliterative 3 года назад

Yes! A perfectly logical alternative path, I loved that detail.

@cerberaodollam 4 года назад

medve!!! we basically snatched the Russian "honey eater" taboo replacement word for bears haha

@jomps1 4 года назад

This is an amazingly well-made video. Super interesting!

@Alliterative 4 года назад

Thank you!

@miranda9691 4 года назад

WOOOW that looks like a wild journey !

@queenofzenk 3 года назад

it's so cool how far out you take it and weave things back in.. one second it's fertility cults and the next it's flowers and scissor names 🙌

@Alliterative 3 года назад

Thanks! Glad you enjoyed it!

@philroberts7238 4 года назад

Wow!! That was quite a tour de force. As Tom Lehrer once said: "I hope you're all taking notes, because there'll be a short test at the end of this lecture". (As for me, I just want to lay my hands on that 19thC Anglo-Australian cook book!)

@anavajic4449 4 года назад

I just found out that Deagol, the name of the hobbit who Gollum/Smeagol murders in Lotr, is related to the Old English word degol, meaning hidden or secretive, that you mention in the video. Apparently, Deagol's body was never found after Gollum murdered him, i.e. Gollum hid it, so that might be the reason for giving him such name. (Can't be sure of course, but knowing Tolkien and his love of Old English, it just might be the case.) P.S. Great video as always!

@Alliterative 4 года назад

Oh, interesting! I would definitely believe that of Tolkien, though I’d not heard it before. And thanks!

@XxMrLimeyxX 4 года назад

Very interesting as always!

@Daniil_Ryvak 4 года назад

Just a couple of days ago I was sitting on the couch, thinking that it would be great to find some channel which explores etymology and today I have your video in the recommendations. Is mind reading AI eventually upon us?

@Alliterative 4 года назад

I am both happy you're here and terrified by this possibility... but welcome!

@Daniil_Ryvak 4 года назад

Alliterative thank you for your cool videos, absolutely intriguing till the very end. I was noticing a lot of similarities in PIE and Slavic roots and maybe you would like to look in that direction so there would be one more insightful perspective on how the languages intermingle with each other to put in the video. Shalom, orthodoxies!

@gwyndolinds-en8yt 3 года назад

This channel is amazing!

@winandsingh 4 года назад

You are a freakin genius

@Theraot 4 года назад

It is not just blue, it’s not turquoise, it’s not lapis, it’s actually cerulean.

@grahamrankin4725 Год назад

It has been proposed that Napoleon was intentionally poisoned with arsenic added to Napoleon's favorite wine ("Murder of Napoleon")

@musicalintentions 4 года назад

This video is a real tour de force. Bravo!

@ramonek9109 4 года назад

Czech word for sky is nebe. Probably related to the proto indo european for cloud.

@Ratty2480 4 года назад

Do you see the color "black"? When you see a black chair, are you seeing the color, or the absence of light reflecting material?

@OnlyGoodJawn 3 года назад

Oddly enough I think both. As it can be one or the other.

@syruseye 3 года назад

I’ve heard the hypothesis that the word “rank” to denote the respective positions in the military hierarchy comes from the Persian “rang” which means “colour”. This is because respective positions in the military were denoted by the colour of the uniform in the past.

@BurnBird1 2 года назад

They are related, but very distantly. English "rank" ultimately derives from a Proto-Germanic word meaning "straight" which in turn comes from a PIE word meaning "to straighten/order" so in a sense, the colours have been "set into order".

@syruseye 2 года назад

@@BurnBird1 can you provide your references for these?

@HebaruSan 4 года назад

Finally a semi-authoritative source for the pronunciation of lapis lazuli!

@CthulhusDream 4 года назад

Could "drug" be related to the Norse "draugr" or "draug"? (aka: the zombies from Skyrim) I can definitely see a thematic and phonetic connection there.

@BurnBird1 2 года назад

Old comment, I know, but for questions like this, try Wiktionary, it's like Wikipedia, but for word etymologies. Basically, yes, both draugr and drug share the same root and are also related to the word "dry". The connection cones from early drugs essentially being dried herbs and berries, while draugr were dried people (an effect from being dead and burried)

@TurnYourBassUp 4 года назад

Ridiculous that this has less than 5k views.

@jessieessex 4 года назад

Hughes disease also known as antiphospholid syndrome or APS is said to be exacerbated by Vitamin K.

@zhubajie6940 4 года назад

Great video. You started to sound like James Burke around minute 40 or so about quinine and alcohol in the original series of "Connections" the episode "The Long Chain." I got interested in Berlin and Kay's work when confronted with the slippery Chinese Mandarin word 青 Qing1 (pronounced Cheeng). It evolved old Chinese as black then evolved to blue then blue-green then green so you don't quite know what color is being referred to.

@Alliterative 4 года назад

Thanks-Burke is a major inspiration to the way I look at things! And that’s interesting about the changing hues of the Mandarin term.

@EmperorEva0001 4 года назад

amazing work

@fluorpotas 4 года назад

So helium, gold, arsenic, chlorine, silver and iodine are mentioned? Wow, one more note, rubeus mentioned on 27:10 is also related to one more chemical element, rubidium.

@Alliterative 4 года назад

Ah, nice! Thanks!

@jkelly5957 3 года назад

The INVISIBLE RAINBOW A History of Electricity and Life Arthur Firstenberg

@rrrosecarbinela 4 года назад

Wow. that was some tour de force!

@sandradermark8463 4 года назад

Been to Stralsund - taken a beer in a tavern under the Scheele townhouse... they say it was his first lab!

@Alliterative 4 года назад

Very cool!

@sandradermark8463 4 года назад

This was where young Scheele was born and raised, of course.

@rumblefish2798 3 года назад

Communism and mistake branching from the same root. Absolutely sublime.

@prysmakitty 4 года назад

That is a lot of info, now that I have time to actually sit down and watch it. I may go back and watch it a second time, just to make sure I didn't miss anything. That is not in any way a complaint, mind you! :-) The colour episodes of the podcast are great and so is this. I can't help but wonder why so many of us are so fascinated with colour terms in particular, out of all the many categories of words out there. I think about the only subject I find equally enthralling is the origins of animal names and related terms. (I always found "bee-wolf" rather poetic.)

@Alliterative 4 года назад

Thanks! I know, it’s very info-dense. And that’s a good question, why we’re so fascinated by colour words-because we definitely are.

@joy2000cyber 4 года назад

Thanks! How long did it take you to make this video?

@Alliterative 4 года назад

Well... it's hard to say, since I've done research on some of these topics before for our podcast, but I started focussing on it about the second week of September, and while this isn't my full-time job I put in at least a few hours on it daily since then, basically, with a few days off for some travel; and Aven also put in quite a few hours helping produce it... I guess it probably took about 100 hours of work? I don't track my hours, though I probably should.

@joy2000cyber 4 года назад

Alliterative 100 hours compact into 50 minutes, no wonder it’s so intense! It’s more engaging than Hollywood

@PASCHDigiMedia 4 года назад

*kel when Grimm-shifted names that default place to which we wish people to go, hint, Norse goddess of same name.

@Alliterative 4 года назад

Indeed-a covered place!

@o_enamuel 2 года назад

5th graders be like "louis GAY-lussac"

@sandradermark8463 4 года назад

From Javel to Javert - was his surname a deliberate choice on Victor Hugo's path?

@syruseye 3 года назад

Could drug have it's etymological roots in the Avestan druj meaning "distortion, devastation, falsehood, lie"? Persian speakers today say dooroogh to convey "falsehood, deceit".

@BurnBird1 2 года назад

No, it shares the same root as dry, referring to how early drugs were mostly dried herbs Avestan "druj" on the other hand is related "dream", which makes sense if you consider that dreams are a sort of false reality you're shown.

@golgarisoul 4 года назад

11:44 that dude has a freaking fossil lapel!

@piersquareddotnet 4 года назад

I thought Paracelsus was Byzantine

@cerberaodollam 2 года назад

Newton was a conspiracy nut? 😳 Interesting... I wonder how Martymer81 would respond to his stuff.

@tombra7 4 года назад

grey is related to szary, and amber is distorted jantar , white is from świat(ło) , red from rudy , minium -zmieniać , mead is from miód and so on , this film is equally informative and disinformative chaotic linguistic fantasy , you still referring to imaginary PIE language as to scientific fact . also it seems you have allergy for mentioning slavic words like wilk or biel for example .

@extraordinarilytypic 3 года назад

What an outstanding example of a man in such a lamentable state of his life that he gets so obsessive with a certain extraneous factor that he is literally charmed by it, ignoring the surrounding reality. Can you really make no connection between the fact that Slavic languages are Indo-European and such words, eh? Bloody hell.

@tombra7 3 года назад

@@extraordinarilytypic What an outstanding example of a man who thinks it`s ok to personal attack someone with different opinion , your comment is too emotional to keep discussion with you . Bye .

@extraordinarilytypic 3 года назад

@@tombra7 A "different opinion" that you insult the author of this channel with, not even presenting a bit of scientific justification behind the super-ultra-believable theory of the "amber-jantar" metathesis, being even not aware of the fact that the aforementioned word is a borrowing from an unidentified source into the Slavic languages, huh? You may shove that kind of an "opinion" up your ass all I care.

@tombra7 3 года назад

@@extraordinarilytypic you have severe problem with emotions . never insulted author anywhere , try to not understand literally everything you read , it would help you . If you don`t care just remain silent , don`t compromise yourself with your foul language .

@extraordinarilytypic 3 года назад

@@tombra7 Oh yeah, you totally did not offend anyone, no no no, you simply said that this author's work is completley useless, is some sort of a fantasy, and you have also accused the author of being "allergic" to slavic words just because he mentioned only a few of them. That does not count as insults, aye? Also, I'm perfectly forthright with my emotions: when I see something foolish written down, I react appropriately.

@jayjeckel 3 года назад

2:08 English has given specific names to pretty much every shade and hue of color. For example, that "light blue" you show is actually cyan. I would dare say there is no language that makes finer distinctions between colors than modern English does.

@extraordinarilytypic 3 года назад

Huh, let's bloody compete, then. By the way, could you please tell me how the Greek word "kyanos" was given a name by the English language?

@jayjeckel 3 года назад

@@extraordinarilytypic I have no idea what you're trying to say.

@extraordinarilytypic 3 года назад

@@jayjeckel In your top comment you said, and I quote, "English has given specific names to pretty much every shade and hue of color". Then you mention a shade of color bearing a foreign, non-native name to it.

@jayjeckel 3 года назад

@@extraordinarilytypic "Cyan" is an English word that has been in use since at least the 1800s. Are you suggesting that English doesn't use "cyan" as a name for a color?

@extraordinarilytypic 3 года назад

@@jayjeckel Do you even possess the ability to read, or you just look at the words randomly? "Cyan" is by no means an English word, it is merely the English variant of the Greek word "kyanos", meaning the same hue of blue.

@discodiscordia 4 года назад

Duuude, you talk too fast! 😩

@Alliterative 4 года назад

And it still took me almost an hour to get through the content...you could set the playback speed to .75X, maybe? Though it does sound a bit worse, it’s true.

@discodiscordia 4 года назад

@@Alliterative thanks for replying! I wonder why this is such a millennial thing. It's not just you who records at breakneck speed, there's also this trend among RU-vidrs to cut out any breathing spaces between sentences. Have some mercy on us Gen Xers and older, lol.

@Alliterative 4 года назад

Ah, thanks for thinking I’m a millennial! ;) I do consciously try to keep the narration quick, even though I know it’s info dense-I hear from a lot of people that they listen to many videos 1.5X or 2X! Which is definitely way beyond this GenXer. The problem is balancing the various expectations and conventions from different audiences...believe it or not I think I’ve slowed down at least a little from my first videos!

@discodiscordia 4 года назад

@@Alliterative oops haha! Then it's a RU-vid thing. I guess I'll just have to pause and take breaks.