Blue: the color that didn't exist until someone invented a word for it

Keywords Berlin and Kay; Jules Davidoff; Himba; Sapir-Whorf hypothesis (linguistic relativity); pigment synthesis; lapis lazuli; Russian; goluboy, siniy; time; space; emotions; William Gladstone; κύανος > κυανός > cyan "Got the blues"? Selected readings "Was Homer (color)blind?" (5/3/26) "Sacré bleu! — the synesthesia of Walmart cyan" (10/8/22) "Color vocabulary and pre-attentive color perception" (2/23/09) — P. Kay "It's not easy seeing green" (3/2/15) "Grue and bleen: the blue-green distinction and its implications" (10/4/19) "The colors of the seas and the directions" (4/28/21) "Synesthesia and Chinese characters" (3/9/17) "Sapir-Whorf redux" (5/15/25) "Linguistic relativity: snow and horses" (4/15/25)