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Dear Venantius,
These are some words I can recollect at the moment; you probably have them all
in your collection:
Dhovem (white)
Kallem (black)
Hollduvem (yellow) from hollod = turmeric
Tambddem (red) from tambem (copper) perhaps
Pachvem (green) from pachu = emerald
Nillem (navy blue) from nill = indigo
Gobrem (gray) from gobor = ash
Zambllem (purple) from zambull fruit
Bhangrallem (golden) from bhangar
Ruperi (silvern) from rupem
Gulabi (pink) from gulab = rose
Dhovem ful'l (snow-white). Don't know whether ful'l means anything.
Kallem kitt'tt (pitchblack). - do - regarding kitt'tt.
Tambddem gunj (bright red). Perhaps gunj stands for gunji = seed of abrus
precatorius.
Kor (colour) from Port. cor of the same meaning
Chutt'tte kor (leaf green) from Chutt'tti = palm leaflet
Mollba kor (sky blue) from mollob = sky
Kafekor (brown) from kafi - coffee
Korderoz (pink) Port. colour of rose
-sar = -ish. e.g. Tambsar = reddish, Dhovsar tambddem = pale red. Kallsar
tambddem = dark red.
Don't know whether "alhambradu/alambrad(u) tuje polle" is the correct
interpretation; because "alambreado" is Port. for amber-coloured or yellowish
brown, a not so likely colour for cheeks. In my region we sing it as "Tambdde
Roza tuje pole" (Rosa, your cheeks are red) which, I think makes more sense,
especially because Roza appears again in the same mando. Perhaps I am wrong?
Mog asum.
Sebastian Borges
On 14 Apr 2010 Venantius J Pinto <[email protected]> wrote:
Hi all,
I would appreciate any information that has to do with colors in the Konkani
language.
It could range from names of colors, pigments, complexions,; to color in
nature---as in how a sky may be referenced from a placid sky blue* to as it
begins to look sinister. It may be colors as heard or encountered in
proverbs, verse, prose, prayer, sayings, curses, or epithets---kaya pottacho
/ pott kayen. English examples would be "a black lie," or "being in the
red."
For instance what do we call grey/gray, brown. What loan words do people
remember from Portuguese or can recognize from other languages into ours.
What suffixes (or prefixes, if any) are commonly used as in bang'ra-sarkem,
tamsor; to denote color as also a quality associated with a particular
color, For that matter does anyone have any further thoughts on alhambradu/
alambrad(u) tuje polle?
Thank all.
venantius
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