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mandatory mention of hungarian, where "red" does not really exist, and in its place there are two different words, roughly equivalent to "dark red" (wine or blo
by riffraff 7y ago
mandatory mention of hungarian, where "red" does not really exist, and in its place there are two different words, roughly equivalent to "dark red" (wine or blood is vörös) and "light red" (fire or apples would be piros).
I am not sure if it's saturation or light or hue difference or whatever, and I can't really tell the difference, but I would quote the example I received first: "it's normal for someone to have vörös hair, but someone with piros hair would likely be a punk".
- floriol 7y agoI'm Hungarian and it's hard to describe the difference. Your examples are good indeed, before wine, blood and red carpet we exclusively use 'vörös', as well as for red headed people, but I'm not sure it is because a different colour (bit darker, saturated red. We also (in a slightly literatury way) say vérvörös, blood-red coloured, I think that's the colour I would associate the word with) or simply because they are almost fixed prefixes. We also use 'bordó', to mean an even darker red (though for my not particularly "trained" eyes they are practically the same as vörös)