![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() In the study of the origin of words (etymology) these “presumed words” are generally marked with an asterisk (*). In addition, many of the words from these and other early languages are only assumed to have existed. Old English – This early form of English, also sometimes called Anglo-Saxon, was used in England and Scotland from about 400 AD-1100 AD. Proto-Germanic – A child of the PIE, Proto-Germanic (2000 BC-500 BC) was an ancestor of the Saxon, English, German (duh), Norse, Norwegian, Dutch, Danish, Icelandic, Faroese, Swedish, Gothic and Vandalic languages. Proto-Indo-European (PIE) – Known as the common ancestor of all of the Indo-European (Europe, India, Iran and Anatolia) languages, it was spoken up to, perhaps, the 3 rd or 4 th millennium BC. So, like other cultures, English words for the colors generally followed that same pattern, with black and white coming first, and purple, orange and pink coming last.Īlthough a number of the languages discussed in this article are self-explanatory, these three benefit from a brief description: The color spectrum clearly exists at a physical level of wavelengths, humans tend to react most saliently to certain parts of this spectrum often selecting exemplars for them, and finally comes the process of linguistic color naming, which adheres to universal patterns resulting in a neat hierarchy… Recent research in this area has demonstrated that this hierarchy matches humans reaction to different frequencies in the visible spectrum that is, the stronger our reaction to that color’s frequency, the earlier it was named in the culture or as Vittorio Loreto et al. Called the hierarchy of color names, the order was generally (with a few exceptions): black, white, red, green, yellow, and blue with others like brown, purple and pink coming at various times afterward. Īs different societies developed names for colors, across the globe, isolated cultures went about naming the colors, but weirdly, they all generally did it in the same order. tarnished, stained, spotted, dirty, smeared. and that not very remote in many cases, when the present color-words were terms that could be used in describing quite different qualities gay, lively, smart, dashy, loud, gaudy. There was a time when there were no color-names as such. Dating back centuries, the names of our everyday colors have origins in the earliest known languages. ![]()
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