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* ''Krysys eidhi ylin?'' - Do you need something else? | * ''Krysys eidhi ylin?'' - Do you need something else? | ||
* ''Gnokys ŷ ydhis ylin?'' - Does she know someone else? | * ''Gnokys ŷ ydhis ylin?'' - Does she know someone else? | ||
==Vocabulary== | |||
===Colour terms=== | |||
The colour system of Brythohellenic is particular, because except ''white'', ''black'' and ''red'' colours' names derive from flowers or natural elements. Historians have supposed that as the Greeks of Conon reached Great Britain they used natural elements to estabilish a first contact between their languagages. | |||
There are also other colour terms that come from Ancient Greek, such as '''klyr''' (= "green"), or '''porhyr''' (= "purple-red"), but they are old-fashioned nowadays and they are used almost exclusively in literature. | |||
{| border="1" cellpadding="1" cellspacing="1" class="wikitable collapsible autocollapse" style="width: 650px; text-align:center" | |||
! colspan="3" style=" text-align: center; |''Colour terms'' | |||
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! style="width: 350px; "|Source | |||
! style="width: 150px; "|Brythohellenic | |||
! style="width: 150px; "|English | |||
|- | |||
|μέλαινα (Ancient Greek) | |||
|melaen | |||
|black | |||
|- | |||
|κελαινός (Ancient Greek); furvus (Latin) | |||
|kelaen; fyrg | |||
|dark, obscure | |||
|- | |||
|λαμπρός (Ancient Greek) | |||
|leimyr | |||
|light, pale, faird (Welsh) | |||
|- | |||
|lividus (Latin), llwyd (Welsh), disliw (Cornish) | |||
|liwys (pl. liwŷs-) | |||
|grey | |||
|- | |||
|gwyn (Welsh), gwynn (Cornish) | |||
|gwyn | |||
|white | |||
|- | |||
|φαλακρός (Ancient Greek) x eglur (Welsh) | |||
|faeglyr | |||
|bright, lucid | |||
|- | |||
|ἐρυθρός (Ancient Greek), rhudd (Welsh), rudh (Cornish) | |||
|ridhyr | |||
|red | |||
|- | |||
|πορφυροῦς (Ancient Greek) | |||
|porhyr | |||
|purple-red | |||
|- | |||
|χλωρός (Ancient Greek) | |||
|klyr (pl. klŷr-) | |||
|green | |||
|- | |||
|gwels (Cornish), "grass" | |||
|gwylsin | |||
|green | |||
|- | |||
|ebron (Cornish), "sky" | |||
|brenin | |||
|light blue, cyan | |||
|- | |||
|θάλασσα (Ancient Greek), "sea" | |||
|thaleisin | |||
|dark blue | |||
|- | |||
|mêl (Welsh), mel (Cornish), "honey" | |||
|mylin | |||
|yellow | |||
|- | |||
|dur (Cornish), "earth" | |||
|dyrin | |||
|brown | |||
|- | |||
|owr (Cornish), "gold"; χρυσός (Ancient Greek), "gold" | |||
|ŷrin; krysin | |||
|golden; | |||
|- | |||
|rosen (Cornish), "rose" | |||
|rysin | |||
|pink | |||
|} | |||
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[[Category:Conlangs]] | [[Category:Conlangs]] | ||