{"id":744,"date":"2008-10-07T12:17:16","date_gmt":"2008-10-07T11:17:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/blog\/2008\/10\/07\/etymological-help-needed\/"},"modified":"2008-10-07T12:17:16","modified_gmt":"2008-10-07T11:17:16","slug":"etymological-help-needed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/?p=744","title":{"rendered":"Etymological help needed"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’ve been asked for help in tracing the etymology of the Spanish word chedr\u00f3n<\/em> by Antonio from Canada.<\/p>\n

The Spanish-speaking grandmothor of one of Antonio’s acquaintances used to use the word chedr\u00f3n<\/em> to refer to the colour of certain things. The problem is that she used the word quite inconsistently to refer to different shades of red, brown, pink, etc.<\/p>\n

Antonino tried looking for chedr\u00f3n, cheddr\u00f3n, shedr\u00f3n, chedron, cheddron, and shedron in the Diccionario de la lengua espa\u00f1ola de la Real Academia Espa\u00f1ola<\/em> (DRAE) and the closest spelling he found was cedr\u00f3n<\/em>, but that refers to a plant (not a colour) and the plant is green anyway.<\/p>\n

On the PROZ website there was a discussion about how to translate the word into English and the answer was “cedar red”.<\/p>\n

A Google search for the word and variant spellings revealed some pictures of objects which, for the most part, are darker shades of red or brown.<\/p>\n

Antonio hasn’t found an authoritative spelling or definition for the word chedr\u00f3n<\/em>, but the Google searches seem to indicate that the word is actually used at least by some Spanish speakers, even if inconsistently.<\/p>\n

The question is, do any Romance languages have a word that sounds anything like chedr\u00f3n<\/em> to signify a colour as described above? If no Romance languages have a similar word, do any other languages?<\/p>\n

He’s not so much concerned about what chedr\u00f3n<\/em> looks like, but where the word comes from and how it is spelt in whichever language Spanish borrowed it from.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’ve been asked for help in tracing the etymology of the Spanish word chedr\u00f3n by Antonio from Canada. The Spanish-speaking grandmothor of one of Antonio’s acquaintances used to use the word chedr\u00f3n to refer to the colour of certain things. The problem is that she used the word quite inconsistently to refer to different shades […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,64],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-744","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-language","category-spanish"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/744","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=744"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/744\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=744"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=744"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=744"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}