Colours

his is part of a project to list some vocabulary by semantic group, this list is just a starting point

Gaelic	English
dath	colour
ban	fair/white
buidhe	yellow
dearg	red
donn	brown
dorcha	dark
dubh	black
glas	grey/ green-grey
gorm	blue/blue-green/green
liath	grey (as in hair or frost)
purpaidh	purple
ruadh	reddish brown/ruddy
soillear	light
uaine	green

Adapted from Fisher (2004).

References

• Fisher, Muriel (2004) Scottish Gaelic: level 1. Seattle: Each-mara publications.