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It seems to me like it'd have a Chinese-like pronunciation, that is Yin Min. Tangentially, as a non-native speaker, "ultramarine" has a fairly similar amount o
by BossingAround 6y ago
It seems to me like it'd have a Chinese-like pronunciation, that is Yin Min.
Tangentially, as a non-native speaker, "ultramarine" has a fairly similar amount of information encoded in the name as "Yinmn"--pretty much zero. So, the two names ("ultramarine" vs "yinmn") are pretty much equivalent to eme, personally.
Goes to show that naming things "properly" is difficult (I suspect it's impossible actually).
- adrian_b 6y agoOriginally, "ultramarine" meant something like "imported merchandise", i.e. something brought from the other side (ultra-) of the sea (-marine). It provided the information that this is a foreign pigment that must be better than the lower-quality pigments produced locally (e.g. azurite).