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"world color survey" says color languages grow ≈

cooldark                       warmlight
cooldark                    light   brightwarm
black             grue             white   brightwarm
black         green   blue         white  red   yellow
black         green   blue         white  red   yellow   brown
black         green  sky ashsea    white  red   yellow   brown
black         green  sky ashsea    white  red   yellow   brown   grey   pink   purple   orange
or

       cooldark                       warmlight
       cooldark                    light   brightwarm
black            plant             white  red
black      plant       blue        white  red
black  yellow green    blue        white  red
black  yellow green  sky  ashsea   white  red            brown
black  yellow green  sky  ashsea   white  red            brown   grey   pink   purple   orange

the <color> fairy books https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_Lang%27s_Fairy_Books were published in 1889 to 1907:

blue  red          green         yellow              pink                grey  violet        crimsobrown         orangeolive                lilac
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