The cognitive linguistics of color

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@LinguisticDiscovery 4 месяца назад

cyan is named for lapis lazuli. azure comes from that word "lazuli". “pink” comes from the name of the Dianthus flower.

@rottenchameleon 4 месяца назад

Now that I know it, it seems just intuitively logical that such a subjective and individual thing as colours are always rooted in real tangible objects. They need to be for everyone to agree that this word is worth using and accurately reflecting the shade of colour it needs to represent

@SunnyAquamarine2 4 месяца назад

I love linguistics and etymology

@grzegorzha. 4 месяца назад

In Polish red ("czerwony", or "czerwień") comes from bugs that were squished to make red dye. It's also where our name for June comes from. We still have "rudy", but now it only describes gingers and is therefore more associated with orange.

@mathlab_jordan 4 месяца назад

are the numbers like that?

@LinguisticDiscovery 4 месяца назад

Yes! They’re usually based in names for fingers or hands, or sometimes names of objects used to count, like sticks

@StarrysLostandFound 4 месяца назад

My instructor in Linguistic Anthropology wouldn't agree with you as she told the class that colors with names tied with a fruit or object were secondary names. But that was the 1980s and maybe people have learned more since then.

@LinguisticDiscovery 4 месяца назад

That's true if someone is talking about other color descriptions, because we already have color terms for primary colors. The point she was probably trying to make was to distinguish between primary color terms and secondary color terms (I'm guessing she was explaining the evolution of color terms a la Berlin & Kay's famous study). She'd probably agree that *historically*, primary color terms derive from concrete descriptions.

@StarrysLostandFound 4 месяца назад

@@LinguisticDiscovery That sounds right.

@mixp1x 4 месяца назад

Good video but wrong about 'white'. It initially comes from the word for light or shine and is directly related to the Russian word свет (svet) meaning light. Never had anything to do with eggs