Rara #2

Legacy number: 2

 Number  2
 Phenomenon  a basic colour term for TURQUOISE
 Found in  Tsakhur (Nakh-Daghestanian)
 Domain  lexicon — basic terms
 Type  nonesuch
 Keywords  colour terms
 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.
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Or do suchlike finds belong with MORPHOLOGICAL rara/rarissima/nonesuches, since basicness crucially includes being morphologically simple or at any rate non-compositional?
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Frans Plank · 21 Sep 2006
Or do suchlike finds belong with MORPHOLOGICAL rara/rarissima/nonesuches,
since basicness crucially includes being morphologically simple or at any rate non-compositional?