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Colors/Colours · At the Learning of Irish

• 0:08
  SPEAKER_00: Gioket Akara Kunasatu Tasulam Goiltagama I hope you're doing well Ismisha Julian I guess Tolme Rash Rish for another episode in this episode we're going to be talking about colours in Irish.
• 0:29
  SPEAKER_00: Like emotions, colours are on things.
• 0:34
  SPEAKER_00: Like Ta Gurum Eronch.
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  SPEAKER_00: There's blue on the house.
• 0:39
  SPEAKER_00: But it means the house is blue.
• 0:43
  SPEAKER_00: Colour is conceived of differently in Irish than it is in English.
• 0:48
  SPEAKER_00: Today in Irish, some colours are used to reference things which are unnatural or unliving, such as a plastic chair.
• 0:57
  SPEAKER_00: So for example, the green that would be on the plastic chair would be a term specific to that kind of green, which is an unnatural color.
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  SPEAKER_00: And likewise some other colors are applied to things that are living or natural, like grass or hair or trees.
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  SPEAKER_00: So the green for the grass would be a different word than the green for the plastic chair.
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  SPEAKER_00: In the past, colors were also associated with how vivid something is or how muted it was.
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  SPEAKER_00: So for example, the green of that plastic chair would be Una.
• 1:37
  SPEAKER_00: That's an artificial green color today, but it can also be the color of freshly sprouted plants.
• 1:44
  SPEAKER_00: So we can see that this is a bright, vivid green.
• 1:48
  SPEAKER_00: Whereas the other word for green, glass, is a natural muted green.
• 1:56
  SPEAKER_00: And that green could also refer to the color of grassy hills on an overcast day.
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  SPEAKER_00: And so we can see the muted aspect of that color.
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  SPEAKER_00: Another color that does this is the color red.
• 2:11
  SPEAKER_00: So the artificial color of red is jerag.
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  SPEAKER_00: But it can also be used to describe anger, so you can say someone's red with anger or jeriglafer, which suggests a sort of brightness to it or an intensity, and the natural color for red is rua, like the color of hair or of a fox.
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  SPEAKER_00: As a matter of fact, one of the words for fox, or I guess it's a phrase, is maldra rua, which means a red dog.
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  SPEAKER_00: You could also say shinnok.
• 2:44
  SPEAKER_00: We have a few terms for black.
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  SPEAKER_00: One is just dov, which actually is in one of the names of Dublin, which would be dovlin.
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  SPEAKER_00: That is a general term for black.
• 2:56
  SPEAKER_00: You can also say kir, which is sort of a shiny black like you would see on a beetle.
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  SPEAKER_00: As a matter of fact, the word for beetle is kirog.
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  SPEAKER_00: The color for yellow is buy, but it can also be conceived of as being like a brilliant brightness like you would see in a flame.
• 3:15
  SPEAKER_00: I had one teacher say that buy is encompassing all of the colors you would see in a flame, suggesting again a sort of intensity to the color.
• 3:26
  SPEAKER_00: Some other colours of things you may see out and about.
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  SPEAKER_00: Bon is white, dun is brown, ur is gold, ergod is silver, it is also the word for money, and Leah is grey.
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  SPEAKER_00: We have Korkra for purple, magenta for magenta, or rashta for orange, it's also the fruit, and balncherg for pink, which is white red.
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  SPEAKER_00: The word for blue is gutum.
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  SPEAKER_00: And the word for colour itself is da which is a masculine noun, and plural would be da.
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  SPEAKER_00: And if you wanted to know what color something was, you could ask the question cane dair which is what color is it?
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  SPEAKER_00: And to answer that, you could say taw and then the color air or taw color erhi if the thing is feminine.
• 4:39
  SPEAKER_00: Remember in the possession episode we talked about how prepositions combine with personal pronouns to make new words.
• 4:48
  SPEAKER_00: That's what's going on here.
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  SPEAKER_00: Air is on, which is R, and the pronoun for he, whereas er he is on plus the pronoun for she.
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  SPEAKER_00: So whatever the grammatical gender of the thing you are talking about, you will pick one of those in response.
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  SPEAKER_00: So can do a ta air What color is it?
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  SPEAKER_00: Ta Gutum air There's blue on it.
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  SPEAKER_00: And if the whatever we're talking about is a feminine thing, ta gutum erhi.
• 5:31
  SPEAKER_00: I guess Shane Karja.
• 5:34
  SPEAKER_00: This wasn't really a long one, but I think it sets you up nicely for the next episode, which I believe is adjectives.
• 5:42
  SPEAKER_00: So Fecky Mehu, I will see you next time.
• 5:46
  SPEAKER_00: Slon Gafal