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cybalist@yahoogroups.com, x99lynx@... wrote:>... The more
difficult connection would that of <varn.a> to sounds and music,
> where even "color" (hue) would seem to be strictly metaphorical.
Perhaps, > this might be an indication that references to <varn.a>
with regard to sounds > were actually refering to written notations?
>
> And then there's 'varnish' -- of somewhat uncertain origin, but
with no > apparent relatedness to <varn.a> --- but which might match
many of its senses > quite well, including that of a "yellowish"
skin or covering.
Fascinating, Steve.
At what point in semantic evolution would the word have meant a
system of 'classification' (e.g. ca_tur varn.a, four-fold
classification of people by their professions) -- or, say, of
consonants or of shades of hue?