The beautiful gift of nature is the ability of man to see the world coloured with all the colours of the rainbow. People are so used to this miracle that they are not surprised.
Moreover, they tend to consider colour an objective property of the objects themselves. Anyway, colour is usually perceived as the colour of objects or as the colour of the room. The so-called warm colours are red, golden and orange, while blue, violet and sea-wave colours are considered cold colours.
In our life experience, we rarely deal with pure colour. We see orange orange orange, green grass, brown eyes, red stars, not just individual colours. It is practically impossible for us to separate the information colour from that which accompanies it, from the contrast in which we perceive colour. The person most often tells about objects and phenomena. It allows you to judge whether the berry is ripe, or it is still green, whether the child is healthy or has a red throat.
Origin of flower names.
The colour designation, colours are divided into two groups - ancient (such as "white" and "black") and relatively new, which did not know the Old Russian language - they came from other languages, and most of them are made from the names of objects that have a characteristic colour. Scarlet. In Turkic languages, scarlet means "pink", "light red", "red". Our word came from there (by the way, almost all the words from the letter "A"). And the fact that it has become "bright red" in our country is quite natural: the meaning of words often changes even more than their sound form when passing from language to language.
Crimson and purple. Sometimes red paint (up to brown!) was called the all-Slavonic word bogus. This gave rise to the names purple and purple. Crimson is called thick red, and purple is called pure bright red. For example, the purple glow is the purple sunset.
White. Once upon a time, there was a the root (in the Indo-European language); it meant "shine", "shine". Remember, the word birch also goes back to this root, probably due to the sparkling, unlike the others, silver trunk of this wonderful tree. That's where the "white" root came from, and that's where the underwear, the squirrel we talked about, and many other words came from.
Bordeaux. It is pronounced from the Bordeaux in the sense of "dark red". Borrowed in the 18th century from the French language, where Bordeaux, "dark red", "the colour of Bordeaux wine" (made in Bordeaux). Why speak so long: dark - red, when you can briefly and soundly say "Bordeaux".
Blue. The aetiology here is extremely short, the colour is named after the colour of the pigeon neck.
Yellow. Interestingly, the word has the same root as the words golden, green. In Lithuanian, for example, "golden" will be yellow-yellow-which was probably the primary meaning of "yellow-shiny".
Green. The same ancient root as yellow. In the Old Russian language, there was the word poel - "winter shoots". The words "cereal" and "green" are close to him.
Brown. Brown means the colours of cinnamon - reddish-brown spices - bark powder or even pieces of tropical tree bark Cinnamomum. Spice is overseas, but the name cinnamon is Russian "Little crust" (from the bark).
Red. Our ancestors liked the scarlet colour so much that they replaced the old Slavic name black with the new one - red, i.e. "the best", "charming", "beautiful". The root of the krass-is included in the words that meant everything that pleased the eye: a red girl, a red boy, a red boy, a red boy. It should also be said that the red colour in Ancient Russia was called both scarlet and wormwood, very consonant, but a little differently in the words. Red paint was made of a special kind of worms (worms), hence the name.