Also happens with cinza (gris, grau, griggio, gri, grå, grijs, gray/grey), azul (blu, bleu, blau, blå, blauw, blue), preto (nero, noir, negru, negre, negro), roxo (porpra, purper, purple, porpora) and probably many others. But I’m too lazy to list all the colours in the Portuguese language.  Also, the idea for this post came from here, and I couldn’t find the source. :(

Also happens with cinza (gris, grau, griggio, gri, grå, grijs, gray/grey), azul (blu, bleu, blau, blå, blauw, blue), preto (nero, noir, negru, negre, negro), roxo (porpra, purper, purple, porpora) and probably many others. But I’m too lazy to list all the colours in the Portuguese language. 


Also, the idea for this post came from here, and I couldn’t find the source. :(

Posted on 31 May, 2012, 2:15pm. This post has 103 notes.
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    It also happens with the mexican word for banana. We call it platano.
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    Let’s add Finnish: punainen (red), harmaa (gray), sininen (blue), musta (black).
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    potuguês PAG
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    Slovenian “rdeča” :D