Re: [tied] Re: The indo european "race"

From: P&G
Message: 26162
Date: 2003-10-01

>> [George:]
>>> chlorus "blond"?
>>
>> I'm not certain what you mean here.
>
>Was it also used for describing color? (fair-haired,
>blond)

I assume you mean hair? I don't know of any examples, but in both Latin adn
GReek colour words often lose their colour/hue sense and pick up other
senses. If chloros were used of hair (as it is of a horse) it well refer to
sheen rather than hue, or to an indeterminate hue of the range
brown-cream-mouse.

Peter