nonesuch 2: a basic colour term for TURQUOISE
- Where found
- Tsakhur (Nakh-Daghestanian)
- Domain
- lexicon
- Subdomain
- basic terms
- Keywords
- colour terms
- Type
- nonesuch
- Universals violated
- Source
- Davies, Ian R. L., Tat’jana Sosenskaja, & Greville G. Corbett (1999). Colours in Tsakhur: First account of the basic colour terms of a Nakh-Daghestanian language. Linguistic Typology 3: 179-207.
Or do suchlike finds belong with MORPHOLOGICAL rara/rarissima/nonesuches,
since basicness crucially includes being morphologically simple or at any rate non-compositional?