On Sat, Dec 4, 2010 at 5:36 PM, Jacob Nevins <[email protected]> wrote: > Igx, The Dreaming Drummer... writes: >> I've got an awful trying time to translate "Quincy" as a color >> (data/multiplayer/game.ruleset:248)... > > You're not the first; see <http://gna.org/bugs/?16884>. > >> Would anyone be kind enough to give me clue ? an URL where this >> color would be described or drawn ? > > As a native English speaker: I have no idea, and nor has anyone else > I've asked :) > > In the Oxford English Dictionary, "Quincy" is defined as "A dry white > wine produced from Sauvignon blanc grapes grown in the Loire valley near > the French village of Quincy." Which is no help. > > An image search for "quince" (the fruit: cognassier?) suggests that the > skin is yellow with perhaps a hint of green. > > The entry for "quince" has several quotations indicating that > "quince-coloured" is a phrase that is used, but none of them actually > indicate what colour it is: > > quince-coloured adj. > 1757 tr. J. G. Keyssler Trav. II. 226 An octangular saloon, > with a table of *quince-coloured marble in the center, round > which fifteen persons may sit. > 1880 Athens (Ohio) Messenger 17 June 5/2 There are..quince colored > cherries. > 1907 J. Joyce Let. 1 Mar. (1966) II. 218 They were low-sized and > quince-coloured. > 1997 Sun-Sentinel (Fort Lauderdale, Florida) (Nexis) 6 July 1 j, > The precocious patriot..was being coached by a Colonial > woman in a quince-colored frock. > > A Google search for "quince-coloured" does turn up this in an > English-German biological dictionary(!): "quitte(n)gelb: > quince-coloured, meline, *yellow* as a quince" (my emphasis). (Also > "quince-coloured moon".) > > So the answer is probably: yellow :) > > _______________________________________________ > Freeciv-i18n mailing list > [email protected] > https://mail.gna.org/listinfo/freeciv-i18n >
I guess it's just the colour of this fruit: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quince So in Danish I would say kvædefarvet (or kvæde if it's clear from the context that we're talking about a colour), as a quince in Danish is kvæde. Use the "wikitranslate" trick: Check the fruit's name in your languages with the conveniently placed links below the `Languages' dropdown :) Regards Ask _______________________________________________ Freeciv-i18n mailing list [email protected] https://mail.gna.org/listinfo/freeciv-i18n
