yelow

yelow

1. Misspelling of yellow.

• ȝelew, ȝelow, ȝelowe, ȝelw, ȝelwe, yelwe, yelewe
• geoleu, ȝeoleu, ȝeolow, ȝeoluh (Early Middle English)
• yalow, ȝalowe, ȝaulew, ȝhalew (especially East Saxon, Northern); ȝelhewe, ȝelhwe (Promptorium Parvulorum)
• ȝealwe (Southern); yalew, ȝeleuȝ, ȝelouȝ, ȝoelou, ȝoelu, ȝolȝe, ȝolow (West Midland)

From Old English ġeolu, from Proto-Germanic *gelwaz, from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰelh₃wós.

• IPA^(key): /ˈjɛlɔu̯/, /ˈjɛluː/, /ˈjɛlwə/
• IPA^(key): /ˈjalɔu̯/, /ˈjaluː/, /ˈjalwə/ (especially East Saxon, Northern)
• IPA^(key): /ˈjɛliu̯/, /ˈjɔliu̯/ (especially Kent, Southern, South Midland)

yelow

1. yellow, yellowish, gold
   • c. 1398, Hans Kurath & Sherman M. Kuhn, editors, Middle English Dictionary, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan Press, ISBN 978-0-472-01044-8, page 1242:

     ȝelouȝ colour [of urine] […] tokeneþ febleness of hete […] dorrey & citrine & liȝt red tokeneþ mene.

2. yellow-coloured
3. golden-brown
4. (of hair) golden, blonde, light
5. (of skin) yellow, sallow, pale
6. blue-grey

• English: yellow

  Ottawa Valley: yollou, yullou

  West Riding: yollo, yallo

• Middle Scots: ȝallow
  • Scots: yella, yelly, yallow
• Yola: yullou, yellou

• “yelwe, adj.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 30 March 2018.

yelow

1. yellow
2. (heraldry) yellow, or
3. yellow textiles
4. (rare) yellow pigment
5. an egg yolk
6. an object or feature notable for being yellow

• English: yellow,
• Scots: yella, yelly, yallow

• “yelwe, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 30 March 2018.