Re: Color Words - purple

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From: Christopher Gwinn

To: cybalist@egroups.com

Sent: Tuesday, November 23, 1999 7:26 PM

Subject: [cybalist] Re: Color Words - purple

Some Celtic linguists postulate a Celtic Blau-us "blue" which might have lead to the French form.

 

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Where does it occur? All I know about "Celtic blues" is that *glast- (or whatever Welsh & Gaelic glas, Breton glaz, Gaulish glastum 'woad, blueberry[?]') is the Celtic "grue" (green+blue) or rather "gruay" (green+blue+grey) macrocolour.

 

Piotr