Colour of *h1reudH (was: PIE's closest relatives)

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "tgpedersen" <tgpedersen@...>
wrote:

> > What about blood and meat?
> >
>
> That's taboo stuff. I think I read all those "red, red-yellow,

pale,

> yellowish" terms were originally horse or cattle color terms.
> Unpolished copper matches nicely there.

FWIW, we do have Old Norse _rjóða_ 'to bloody', Sanskrit
_rudHira_ 'red, bloody', and Pali _lohita_ 'red, blood'.

My reading tells me that the colour term 'red' used to be anchored
by the colour of blood. Whether PIE speakers had ruddy (another
derivative of *h1reudH) faces, I don't know.

Richard.