the word red is related to color, (and in spanish is a bit closer, with colorado being 'red river') but the word color retains the meaning of blush (to color) -to have one skin take on a red color.

long time past, there was a thread on colors, and color names/groups..

English is rich in color names; lilac is a very different color than heliatrope, or lavender, or iris, or periwinkle.. but in some languages all those colors would just be blue, not even purple!

and our ways of grouping colors, is part of our scientific way of thinking about them... in some languages/schemes, yellow, red, coral orange and turquoise are group.. (makes some sense till you hit turquoise, right? but that grouping is found on local bird, and they have group name..

a humans can see the same shades/tones/groups of colors (except people-mostly men- who are 'color blind'... but color blindness is found in all races/ethnic groups) but not all languages have names for all colors.. or the same groupings.


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