yellow

yellow
\ \ [OE] Yellow is a member of an ancient and widespread family of European colourterms descended from Indo-European *ghel-, *ghol-, which denoted both ‘yellow’ and ‘green’. From it were descended Latin helvusyellowish’ and possibly galbusgreenishyellow’ (source of French jauneyellow’ and English jaundice), Greek kholébile’ (source of English choleric, melancholy, etc), Russian zheltyjyellow’, Lithuanian geltonasyellow’, and English gall and gold. In the Germanic languages it has produced German gelb, Dutch gel, Swedish and Danish gul, and English yellow. A yolk [OE] is etymologically a ‘yellow’ substance.
\ \ Cf.CHOLERIC, GALL, GOLD, JAUNDICE, MELANCHOLY, YOLK

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