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http://goanvoice.org.uk/miningpetition.php --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Hi all, I would appreciate any information that has to do with colors in the Konkani language. Many are the ideas which include or embrace color, including associations with occupations, lewdness, characters, etc. I am not writing a book, and would approach it differently if I was. This is the kind of small contribution that I try to make via Goanet. Its about memories and building up from there, for what is possible and for what it is worth. 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." What references have people heard made to the color of the sky or the sea. How about sky blue. Or say a red named/ remembered as being of a any particular place in Goa. How about a generalization of say a Laterite Red, or a Bhunyar Kallo (Tunnel Black), Batim Tambddo / Bhatigramma Tammbdo (Batim Red), Calangute Blue. Please understand that I am making these up. Writers its time you guys got in in this--I mean in putting out ideas through your essays. I am often amazed when people in Goa ask quite genially that I share ideas, so here some more. Perhaps you remember something from a novel (kadambari, romareo); they may relate to sexuality, character, characterizations, etc. Perhaps in a sentence you may have heard. Do talk to friends, family colleagues if you care to. There are very few colors expressed on a regular basis in most Indian languages, and Konk'nni is no exception. 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