Laz,

>>According to JRClark Hall's Concise A-S Dict there is apparantly an

association between color and family. <<

I am interested in where in Hall you found this information. By the way,
you say too that this isn't an Old English group. Do you know of a good
OE group? Probably not, since you ask this question here. I bet I am
not the only one who finds it interesting.

I can say that the Mongols used colors for their clans. You have heard
of the Golden Horde. There was also a Blue Horde and a White Horde. (By
the way, "horde" is just meant "army," as in modern Turkish: orda.

In Russian, if you want to say somebody is a blueblood, you can use that
expression (which I suppose comes from Europe) or say "belaya kost'"
which translates as "white bone." The Mongols called a clan a "bone"
(a member of the body), and it seems the White was regarded as especially
noble.

I would love to know how this relates to Germanic, Old Norse or OE.

Gazariah