I did--but man, I regret orange and purple, since nothing rhymes with either one. Mistake!

In English...

Red was a hair colour, came to us from old English via Saxon Rot = red.

The main colour for fabric was maroon, made from madder - the uniform of the Roman legion, the word comes from French. marron "chestnut," from the colour of the sweet chestnut timber.

Scarlet, was the colour for the rich from old French (Norman) - "rich cloth" (often, but not necessarily, bright red in color), from escarlate acquired during the crusades - saqirlat "a kind of rich Arabic cloth.

Painters used Vermillion however, - "cinnabar, red dye," from O.Fr. vermeillon, from vermeil "bright-red," from L.L. vermiculus "a little worm," specifically, the cochineal insect from which crimson dyes were obtained.

Blue was from a Norse word for a deep, swarthy black blamaðr, it was also similar to a Celt word for a grey yellow, and hence we ended up wit the modern word.

Painters, used what we would refer to as blue today, a colour called ultramarine - pigment made from Egyptian lapis lazuli," from M.L. ultramarinus, lit. "beyond the sea," - so called because the mineral was imported from Asia by sea.

Green, is from O.E. - growan "to grow," from the colour of living plants.

painters used Verdgris, verdigris from Old French. verte grez - verte de Grece = literally. "green of Greece," from L. viridis (growing plant).

Orange - from the fruit, Medieval Latin - pomum de orenge, from Latin, apple of Arancia, - originally narancia (naranj, from name for Persian.

Purple - from Old English. purpul - "purple garment," - Latin. purpura "purple-dyed cloak, - Gk. porphyra (name for the shellfish (murex) from which it was obtained).

Yellow from Old English geolu, -"yellow, green" (from Gk. Khloe, lit. "young green shoot;"). most painters used colours made from clays, the old name for Yellow was Ochre, "type of clayey soil from Greek. ochra, from ochros "pale yellow,"

Many early yellow browns were all named after the area they came from. terra di Sienna "earth of Siena

Some colouyrs were named because of the job they did on a painting, hence Umbra was used for shadows, and the name comes from Latin umbra "shade, shadow"