> ( there any other interesting (ie, unpredictable from English) uses of > ) colour nouns in Welsh? > > What is so special about the English appreciation of colour, then? Only that terms for colours are purely relative, and English seems the obvious language to compare with, being the native tongue of most on this net, as well as the one spoken in proximity to Welsh for centuries as the language of the dominant group, etc etc etc, going as far as to "lend" several terms to Welsh, and thereby no doubt changing the view of colours in Welsh. Apart from that, nothing at all really. > ( the "green" colour of growing things. (Of course it's also the first > ) element in Q-Celtic Glaschu/Glasgow, the second being presumably > ( cognate with W. _cu_ "dear" as in tadcu, mamgu: the Dear Green Place.) > > Do you have any evidence for that? Er, no, not really. It's commonly* claimed (which doesn't make it true) that Glasgow means the Dear Green Place, and the resemblance to the Welsh morphemes seemed to good to be true. Then again the Chambers guide to Scottish Place Names (best I can get hold of just now) says it's glas [green] + cau [hollows], so take your choice. [*and "tweely"] Harry STOP PRESS: A more authoritative source says no-one really knows where "Glasgow" comes from but that "dear cloister" "green cloister" and "church of Cun(tigernus)" are indeed possibilities.