Note:I'm not fluent in any languages with this feature. And it's a feature my prof was insufficiently aware of that his ethnographic projects never delved into it.
Orange is a specificity of color with historical antecedents in English--it existed before that but without the name.
I seem to recall there is a green indigo will make with specialized mordanting, though it could be stage it looks green but dries blue. (I never dyed with indigo, it's a very specialized process.)
Arsenic green was very famous as a wall paper color (I think that's the 'modern' term, just to remind people to Be Careful. The actual names might be too seductive.)
But yeah, the intimation is that some languages have fewer color terms. Again, I don't know the languages used as examples, and have come to question how much of what's been found is artifacts of what was taken in by those looking.
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Orange is a specificity of color with historical antecedents in English--it existed before that but without the name.
I seem to recall there is a green indigo will make with specialized mordanting, though it could be stage it looks green but dries blue. (I never dyed with indigo, it's a very specialized process.)
Arsenic green was very famous as a wall paper color (I think that's the 'modern' term, just to remind people to Be Careful. The actual names might be too seductive.)
But yeah, the intimation is that some languages have fewer color terms. Again, I don't know the languages used as examples, and have come to question how much of what's been found is artifacts of what was taken in by those looking.