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Etymology edit
Frae Middle Inglis yelwe, yelou, frae Old English ġeolu, ġeolwe, frae Proto-Germanic *gelwaz, frae Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰelh₃-wos (compare Welsh gwelw (“pale”), Laitin helvus (“dull yellae”)), frae *ǵʰelh₃- (“gleam, yellae”) (compare Erse geal (“white, bricht”), Lithuanian žalias (“green”), Ancient Greek χλωρός (khlōrós, “licht green”), Persie زر (zar, “yellae”), Sanskrit हरि (hari, “greenish-yellae”)).
The verb is frae Old English ġeolwian, frae the adjective.
Pronunciation edit
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈjɛ.ləʊ/
- (General American) enPR: yĕl-'ō, IPA(key): /ˈjɛ.loʊ/
- (dialect) IPA(key): /ˈjɛ.ləʊɹ/
Audio (US) (file) Audio (UK) (file) - Rhymes: -ɛləʊ
Adjective edit
yellow (comparative Wt/sco/yellower, superlative Wt/sco/yellowest)
- yellae in colour.
- Milton:
- A sweaty reaper from his tillage brought / First fruits, the green ear and the yellow sheaf.
- Keble:
- The line of yellow light dies fast away.
- 1911, Template:W, "The green eye of the little yellow god,"
- There's a one-eyed yellow idol / To the north of Kathmandu; / There's a little marble cross below the town; / And a brokenhearted woman / Tends the grave of 'Mad' Carew, / While the yellow god for ever gazes down.
- 1962 (quotin c. 1398 text), Template:W & Sherman M. Kuhn, editors, Template:W, Ann Arbor, Mich.: Template:W, ISBN 978-0-472-01044-8, page 1242:
- dorrẹ̅, dōrī adj. & n. Template:... Golden or reddish-yellow Template:... (a. 1398) *Trev. Barth. 59b/a: ȝelouȝ colour [of urine] Template:... tokeneþ febleness of hete Template:... dorrey & citrine & liȝt red tokeneþ mene.
- Milton:
- (informal) Lackin courage.
- Monty Python
- You yellow bastards! Come back here and take what's coming to you!
- Monty Python
Synonyms edit
- (lacking courage): cowardly
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Noun edit
yellow (plural Wt/sco/yellows)
- The colour yellae.
- 1892, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, The Yellow Wallpaper
- It is the strangest yellow, that wall-paper! It makes me think of all the yellow things I ever saw—not beautiful ones like buttercups, but old foul, bad yellow things.
- 1892, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, The Yellow Wallpaper
- (US) The intermediate licht in a set of three traffeck lichts, the illumination o which indicates that drivers should stap short o the intersection if it is safe tae do so.
Synonyms edit
- (intermediate licht in a set o three traffic lichts): amber (Breetish)
Antonyms edit
Hyponyms edit
- (color): bronze yellow, cadmium yellow, fast yellow AB, quinoline yellow, school bus yellow, sulfur yellow, sulphur yellow, taxi yellow, yellow-green, yellow 2G
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Colours in Inglis · colors, colours (layout · text) | ||||
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red | green | yellow | cream | white |
crimson | magenta | teal | lime | pink |
indigo | blue | orange | gray, grey | violet |
black | purple | brown | azure, sky blue | cyan |