Gray, in my words

liat : gray

The Fennas word for gray is liat. Liat is an uncommon last name. Liat is an unusual feminine first name. LIAT is an acronym for Leeward Islands Air Transport.

How did I come up with this word? The Welsh word for gray is llwyd, the Irish word for gray is liath, and the Breton word for gray is louet.

My previous Fennas word for gray was leit. Not a big change.

Green, in my words

gwed : green

The Fennas word for green is gwed.

How did I come up with this word? The Welsh word for green is gwyrdd or glas, the Irish word for green is glas or uaine (vivid green), and the Breton word for green is glas or gwer (artifical green). It's interesting to note that glas is a very broad Celtic color term for a darker color, which also means blue and sometimes gray.

Previously my Fennas word for green was gair and glyes.

White, in my words

byn : white

The Fennas word for the color white is byn. Byn is an uncommon last name. Byn is an unusual first name. In Swedish byn is the definite singular of by which means village. Byn is the name of a number of cities and towns in Sweden.

How did I come up with this word? The word for white in Welsh is gwyn, white in Irish is bán, white in Breton is gwenn.

My previous Fennas word for white was wenn. After some consideration, I decided to change my word to take more from the Irish word. Starting the word for white with W was perhaps too like English. The word for white in French, blanc, also starts with B.

Yellow, in my words

melui : yellow

The Fennas word for the color yellow is melui. Imloth Melui is a place mentioned in The Lord of the Rings noted for fragrant roses (in Sindarin melui means lovely, sweet). Melui is a city on the island of Sulawesi in Indonesia.

How did I come up with this word? The Welsh word for yellow is melyn, the Irish word for yellow is buí, and the Breton word for yellow is melen.

My previous Fennas word for yellow was melar. The new word starts like the Welsh and Breton words for yellow, and ends like Irish word.

Brown, in my words

roun : brown

The Fennas word for the color brown is roun. Roun is a last name. In some songs roun' can be a shortened version of round.

The Welsh word for brown is brown or gwrm, the Irish word for brown is donn, the Breton word for brown is rousdu or ruzdu.

Blue, in my words

plas : blue

The Fennas word for blue is plas. Plas is a last name. In Breton plas means place. In Welsh plas means hall, mansion. In Dutch and Danish plas means lake. Plas is the name of a city in Belgium.

In Welsh and Breton the word for blue is glas. The Irish word for blue is gorm.

Yes, I know that the Celtic words start with G. I decided to make my Fennas word for blue similar but different.

Red, in my words

corg : red

The Fennas word for the color red is corg. Corg is an unusual last name. Corg is close to corgi, which is small herding dog that orginated in Wales.

My word is a mashup combination of the Welsh word for red which is coch, and the Irish word for red which is dearg. The Breton word for red is ruz.

Black, in my words

duth : black

The Fennas word for the color black is duth. Duth is a last name. Duth seems to be a misspelling of doth which is an archaic English form of does.

My word, duth, seems a reasonable word for black, maybe because it's similar to the word dusk. In Welsh and Breton the word for black is du. The Irish the word for black is dubh.