Define:Yellow

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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 (zar, “yellae”), Sanskrit हरि (hari, “greenish-yellae”)).

The verb is frae Old English ġeolwian, frae the adjective.

Yellow (comparative Yellower, superlative 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, J. Milton Hayes, "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), Hans Kurath & Sherman M. Kuhn, editors, Middle English Dictionary, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan Press, ISBN 978-0-472-01044-8, page 1242:
  dorrẹ̅, dōrī adj. & n. […] Golden or reddish-yellow […] (a. 1398) *Trev. Barth. 59b/a: ȝelouȝ colour [of urine] […] tokeneþ febleness of hete […] dorrey & citrine & liȝt red tokeneþ mene.
(informal) Lackin courage.
- Monty Python
  You yellow bastards! Come back here and take what's coming to you!

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Yellow (plural 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.
(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.