#Choosing kafyar or gabrrl depends on if you want to emphasize the wildness or the strength

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Heyo!

After reading over the clanmew 101 doc, I’m trying to translate one of my OC’s name into clanmew. Is there a clanmew word for the color blue? Alternatively, I’ve heard that in Ancient Greek, there was one word for both red and blue. Is clanmew similar?

(Btw, her name is Blueblaze, in this case (???)kafyar or maybe (???)gabrrl? I’m still debating which suites her better)

The Ancient Greek thing is actually a misconception! Iirc Homer often describes colors with a quality, and the best example is "Wine Dark Sea." People think that means he's calling the sea red, like wine, but he means that the water is deep and rich. It's metaphor.

There are lots of languages that don't differentiate though, some combine Blue/Green, or Black/White.

For Clanmew, logically speaking, the cats would be red/green colorblind... but I decided early on that I was going to take some artistic license and give them color vision, because I'm already putting a ton of work into the ecology, politics, conlang, etc that I decided I was going to get more enjoyment out of taking artistic liscence here

In terms of colors they don't differentiate, if there's any, it's probably purple. They see that only during sunset, so it's probably another type of blue. They have a LOT more words for brown though. Color list for you:

Red (blood) = Rey

Black-brown = Ubo

Black-blue = Lubro

Blue = Lupar

Silver = Ssoen

Gray = Shub

White = Osk

Tawny (light wood brown) = Pyowa

Brown (soil) = Porga

Mahogany (red-brown) = Rapor

Russet (dark orange) = Rarrlur

Ginger (orange) = Kemree

Copper (red-orange) = Yaryen

Cream = Suwee

Gold (orange-yellow) = Rreen

Yellow (dandelion) = Aween

Green = Holro

There's also these special color-related words:

Bright (intense color) = Yaywi

Dark (dim color) = Loerr

Rainbow/Iridescent = Solyys