If a language contains eight or more terms, then it contains terms for purple, pink, orange or gray. This may be why story Beowulf only contains the colours black, white, and red. Homer's Odyssey contains black almost 200 times and white about 100 times. Red appears 15 times, while yellow and green appear only 10 times. (More information here) More @Wikipedia
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