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====Colour terms==== | ====Colour terms==== | ||
Ikronurum has basic colour terms and | Ikronurum has two classes of colour terms: a closed set, including ''basic colour terms'' and ''standardized derived colour terms'', and an open set, including further ''ad hoc colour terms'', which can be derived as needed. | ||
All ''derived colour terms'', both ''standardized'' and ''ad hoc'', are constructed as ''genitive compounds'' composed of the word "colour" (''agoro'' /ˈʔɑ.go̞ɾo̞/) and the noun which carries the colour one wants to refer to; this compounds are then marked with the ''adjectivizer suffix'' {{sc|adjz}} ''-rin''. | |||
The verb used to refer to something being "of x colour“ is ''nontur'' /ˈno̞n.tuɾ/, "to.take.with, to.take.along, to.bring.with, to.bring.along; to.carry" (used also with flavours and some attributes to convey the meaning of "having X“, e.g. "having strength", or "being X“, e.g. "being sweet"). | |||
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| þír || ˈθei̯ɾ || adj || q || brown, dun | | þír || ˈθei̯ɾ || adj || q || brown, dun | ||
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! colspan="5"| Derived colour terms (agor-ó-X.en-rin, colour-of-X.of-{{sc|adjz}}) | ! colspan="5"| Derived colour terms (agor-ó-X.en-rin, colour-of-X.of-{{sc|adjz}}) | ||