istarchuli LCDD 14 Paya Kuna. LCDD 14 Paya Kuna

108 Basic HealthMedical Discussion 3. Neg tika chi. ‗The house is sitting nearby.‘ 4. Mol karki pakcha. ‗I bought expensive cloth.‘ 5. Ochi tutu kunnai. ‗I am eating a soft candy.‘ 6. Sabured tinna nai. ‗The sabured is suspended dry.‘

9.4.3 Colors Ex. 7 –10

Color plays a very important role in Kuna culture and the Kuna concept of color varies considerably from the EnglishSpanish view. Therefore, a brief overview of the Kuna color system is given here for the language learner. 37 Truly beautiful colors from a Kuna standpoint are colors which are classified as ―pure‖ colors. Each of the five ―pure‖ colors has a name: 1. kinnid ‗red‘ 2. kollogwad ‗yellow‘ 3. arrad ‗blue‘ 4. chibu ‗white‘ 5. chichid ‗black‘ All other colors are inferior and less highly valued. The five pure colors comprise the base points of a two-way color distinction; spectral colors and shades of intensity.

9.4.3.1 Spectral colors

Spectral colors are those colors which occur on a color spectrum. The primary colors on the spectrum have specific names, others are given coined names. 1 Primary color names The primary colors, in the order in which they are listed below, comprise the base and mid-points of the Kuna color spectrum. They are all pure colors and, therefore, highly valued, but red is the most appealing of all: 1. kinnid ‗red‘ 2. kollogwad 38 ‗yellow‘ 3. arrad ‗blue‘ 2 Coined terms for color Secondary colors between the base and mid-points on the spectrum, that is, those such as orange, green, and violet, do not have specific names, and are often referred to by coined terms that may vary from one speaker to another. The coined tem is derived from the name of a familiar object of similar color plus a color suffix -gid. Examples 1. kwili apchalgid ‗the color of parakeet feathers lime green‘

2. chapkalegid

‗the color of a leaf green‘ 37 A more-detailed discussion of Kuna color perspective is found in ―Spectral colors and intensity in Paya Kuna color terminology‖, Wilma Forster, forthcoming. 38 Although kollogwad ‗yellow‘ is a coined term derived from kollo ‗ripe‘ plus -gwad, it usually occurs in this form, but sometimes in a given context a yellow object may be referred to simply as kollo ‗yellow‘. All Kunas use this term for ―yellow‖ and treat it as a pure color. In phrases such as kollo chibugwad ‗whitened yellow‘ note that -gwad is attached to the modifier rather than to kollo.