"yellow-red" meaning in All languages combined

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Adjective [English]

Forms: more yellow-red [comparative], most yellow-red [superlative], yellowred [alternative]
Etymology: From Middle English ȝelu-red, ȝolowhered, from Old English ġeolurēad (“reddish yellow, orange”), from Proto-West Germanic *gelwaraud (“orange”), equivalent to yellow + red. Cognate with Saterland Frisian jeelrood (“orange”), Dutch geelrood (“orange”), German Low German geelroot (“orange”), German gelbrot (“yellow-red, orange”). Etymology templates: {{inh|en|enm|ȝelu-red}} Middle English ȝelu-red, {{inh|en|ang|ġeolurēad|t=reddish yellow, orange}} Old English ġeolurēad (“reddish yellow, orange”), {{inh|en|gmw-pro|*gelwaraud|t=orange}} Proto-West Germanic *gelwaraud (“orange”), {{af|en|yellow|red}} yellow + red, {{cog|stq|jeelrood|t=orange}} Saterland Frisian jeelrood (“orange”), {{cog|nl|geelrood|t=orange}} Dutch geelrood (“orange”), {{cog|nds-de|geelroot|t=orange}} German Low German geelroot (“orange”), {{cog|de|gelbrot|t=yellow-red, orange}} German gelbrot (“yellow-red, orange”) Head templates: {{en-adj}} yellow-red (comparative more yellow-red, superlative most yellow-red)
  1. Of a colour between yellow and red; orange.
    Sense id: en-yellow-red-en-adj-BGsekrWI Categories (other): Oranges Disambiguation of Oranges: 51 19 30
  2. Consisting of yellow and red colours individually.
    Sense id: en-yellow-red-en-adj-uhAdjx~Y Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries, Reds, Yellows Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 3 95 2 Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 1 96 3 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 1 97 2 Disambiguation of Reds: 26 65 9 Disambiguation of Yellows: 33 60 7

Noun [English]

Forms: yellow-reds [plural], yellowred [alternative]
Etymology: From Middle English ȝelu-red, ȝolowhered, from Old English ġeolurēad (“reddish yellow, orange”), from Proto-West Germanic *gelwaraud (“orange”), equivalent to yellow + red. Cognate with Saterland Frisian jeelrood (“orange”), Dutch geelrood (“orange”), German Low German geelroot (“orange”), German gelbrot (“yellow-red, orange”). Etymology templates: {{inh|en|enm|ȝelu-red}} Middle English ȝelu-red, {{inh|en|ang|ġeolurēad|t=reddish yellow, orange}} Old English ġeolurēad (“reddish yellow, orange”), {{inh|en|gmw-pro|*gelwaraud|t=orange}} Proto-West Germanic *gelwaraud (“orange”), {{af|en|yellow|red}} yellow + red, {{cog|stq|jeelrood|t=orange}} Saterland Frisian jeelrood (“orange”), {{cog|nl|geelrood|t=orange}} Dutch geelrood (“orange”), {{cog|nds-de|geelroot|t=orange}} German Low German geelroot (“orange”), {{cog|de|gelbrot|t=yellow-red, orange}} German gelbrot (“yellow-red, orange”) Head templates: {{en-noun|~}} yellow-red (countable and uncountable, plural yellow-reds)
  1. The colour orange. Tags: countable, uncountable
    Sense id: en-yellow-red-en-noun-c3wWqGF6

Inflected forms

Alternative forms

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This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable All languages combined dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2025-05-08 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2025-05-01 using wiktextract (887c61b and 3d4dee6). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.