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For example: why is grass green or the sky blue?

2007-02-27 07:12:43 · 4 answers · asked by BRIAN C 2 in Education & Reference Trivia

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If you mean the English names, it was the Saxons, mostly.

For example:

green - from graessen, "grass-like". (Grass itself is from graewan, "to grow").

red - from read, "red". (pronounced rey-ed).

yellow - from geolo, "yellow".

Blue is from French, but French got it from Old High German blae-haewen, "blue". It's pronounced more or less "blue heaven", and the word blow comes from it as well (the ancients believed the wind came from the sky, where heaven was).

2007-03-01 09:48:59 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

Mildred Grausenheimer from Twin Oaks, Ohio (or was that Long Island?).
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2007-02-28 04:29:26 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

Colonel white (captain scarlet) must have named all the colours in SPECTRUM

2007-02-27 16:44:22 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1 0

jesus did

2007-02-27 18:57:00 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

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