Colour terms in Gevey

The word for colour in Gevey is loeslju. Gevey speakers recognise 9 distinct colour nodes (rather than the 11 distinguished by Ramajal speakers - Gevey lacks specific terms for pink and orange):

These modifiers are used for the range of colours which cluster around each node. If the speaker wants to be precise that they are referring to the pure form of the colour node, then the suffix -al is added to the end of the modifier: salal- salalutlje, pure black; tintal- tintalutlje, pure red; snodxal- snodxalutlje, pure grey; and so on.

For lighter hues of the the non black/white colours, the suffix -untc is added to the end of the modifier:

And for darker hues of the the non black/white colours, the suffix -ous is added to the end of the modifier

Gevey speakers will also identify a particular colour associated with an object by adding the suffix -loeslju to the object root,in the process turning the object into a modifier - for instance: ligu (gold) becomes ligloeslj- ligloesljutle (golden).