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colour terminology
For specific colour terms, the place structure is "x1 is foo coloured". There are no exceptions.
Basic colours:
- black (or very dark): {jvsv xekri}
- grey: {jvsv grusi}
- white (or very light): {jvsv blabi}
- red: {jvsv xunre}
- orange: {jvsv narju}
- brown: {jvsv bunre}
- yellow: {jvsv pelxu}
- green: {jvsv crino}
- cyan: {jvsv cicna}
- blue: {jvsv blanu}
- purple: {jvsv zirpu}
- magenta: {jvsv nukni}
The six basic colours {jvsv xunre}, {jvsv pelxu}, {jvsv crino}, {jvsv cicna}, {jvsv blanu}, and {jvsv nukni} could be understood to divide up the (circular) hue range into six segments. {jvsv narju} and {jvsv zirpu} are perhaps additional segments overlapping these? Or are they non-overlapping? {jvsv bunre} seems to depend on saturation and brightness for its definition. Can someone comment on this? Is there an official mapping between these words and the colour cylinder? Someone has produced a ist of representative colours.