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I was disappointed to learn that many of the basic colors in Modern Greek i.e. yellow, blue, purple, grey, and brown have Latinate or French origins. Why is this so? Were the thousands of years of Greek textual history not enough to normalize indigenous names for colors?
Notice: Yellow - Citrona, Blue - Ble (French > Frankish Germanic, spelled mple for some reason), Grey - Gri, Purple - Mov (from French mauve) and Brown - Cafe.
Indigenous textually attested terms still exist i.e. light blue - galantyo, purple - porphyr, but in many ways they have been superseded by these foreign imports.
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