>if i remember, there is about 8% of people in european country who >have physiological difficulties in distinguishing colors (daltonism >?). and i don't think this has nothing to do with the fact of being of >keltic origin (i have never heard that there was more people in >brittany who have difficulties in distinguishing colors than in the >rest of france). Quite so. I was a bit surprised when I saw people talikng about *literal* colour-blindness. It seems obvious that this is a cultural, antroplogical phenomenon. In Polish we have some dozen or more words for a forest - this doesn't mean we're particularly sensitive to tree shapes or anything like that, does it. Perhaps colours just weren't that important for Welsh people. What about words describing sounds, though? Grzesiek Staniak