Meaning: white

Represented in 156 languages with 27 cognate sets.

Illustrative Context

There’s a white cloud in the sky.

Target Sense
  • The most basic colour term (usually adjectival) seen as the natural antonym of black.
  • Avoid terms meaning specifically bright, light, illuminated, clean, pure.
  • Avoid terms limited to figurative senses such as blank, indistinguishable, etc..
  • See also the target sense definitions for other colour terms in IE-CoR: black, red and green.

Cognate sets for meaning: white

Id <span style="white-space:nowrap;">IE-CoR ref. form&nbsp;</span> <span style="white-space:nowrap;">IE-CoR ref. lang.&nbsp;</span> # clades # lexemes loan? pll loan? pll deriv.? ideoph.? loan src lang. src lex cogset. Details

Lexeme Details

Language Lexeme Phonetic Phonemic Cognate set loan? pll loan? Source lang