Re: [tied] Colour of *h1reudH (was: PIE's closest relatives)

From: P&G
Message: 29402
Date: 2004-01-12

>My reading tells me that the colour term 'red' used to be anchored
>by the colour of blood.

It may also be "anchored" by the paucity of colour words in PIE. Languages
with three colour words typically have "red, black, white"; the fourth word
is typically "yellow/brown". Blues and greens are added quite a bit later.
PIE seems to have followed this pattern.

Peter