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The Early Concept of the Celtic Colour Term glas in Welsh and Irish and its Later Semantic Diversification
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The Celtic colour term glas has been subject to a number of misconceptions over the decades, e.g.that it is a grue category, that it is untranslatable, and that the range of colour shades covered by glas is cross-linguistically rare. Coming from a diachronic perspective,
this article aims to give a logical explanation of the developments of the semantics of glas, followed by an overview of the synchronic semantics of the word in both Irish and Welsh.
University of Wales Press/Gwasg Prifysgol Cymru
Title: The Early Concept of the Celtic Colour Term glas in Welsh and Irish and its Later Semantic Diversification
Description:
The Celtic colour term glas has been subject to a number of misconceptions over the decades, e.
g.
that it is a grue category, that it is untranslatable, and that the range of colour shades covered by glas is cross-linguistically rare.
Coming from a diachronic perspective,
this article aims to give a logical explanation of the developments of the semantics of glas, followed by an overview of the synchronic semantics of the word in both Irish and Welsh.
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