Re: Color Words - purple

From: Christopher Gwinn
Message: 331
Date: 1999-11-23

My source is Pierre Billy, Thesaurus Linguae Gallicae (1990) - which isn't available to me at the moment, but I do recall that he cited two sources for this word being attested in old Gallic dialect
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From: Piotr Gasiorowski
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Sent: Tuesday, November 23, 1999 3:04 PM
Subject: [cybalist] Re: Color Words - purple

 
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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.
 
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
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