gelb
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[edit]From Middle High German gel (inflected gelwe), from Old High German gelo, from Proto-West Germanic *gelu, from Proto-Germanic *gelwaz.
The form gelb is derived from the Middle High German inflected stem (as in herb), while the variant gehl is from the uninflected stem and from dialects that reduce -lw- to -l- in all positions (as in fahl, kahl). It survives in set phrases. Cognate with Dutch geel, Low German geel, English yellow.
Pronunciation
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[edit]gelb (strong nominative masculine singular gelber, comparative gelber, superlative am gelbsten)
- yellow
- Synonyms: honigfarben, senffarben
- 1976, Armin Bollinger, Drei Körner vom gelbem Mais. Neue Erzählungen aus Lateinamerika, NZN Buchverlag:
- (politics, Germany, relational) related to the FDP (a libertarian and market-economy promoting political party in Germany)
- 2005, Erich Rückleben, “Die »Neue Linke« macht mobil”, in Die Brücke, page 47:
- Als im Herbst 1998 die Kohl-Dynastie zu Ende ging, die C-Demokraten nebst gelber FDP-Galle auf die Strafbänke der Opposition geschickt wurde, war zugleich ein Bündnis sozialer Kälte abgewählt, das unter der Führung des Moguls Kohl ingesamt abgewirtschaftet hatte.
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- (archaic) blond
- Synonym: blond
- 1901, Wilhelm Haarmann, Deutsch-evangelisches Leben in Brasilien, page 121:
- Sein gelbes Haar war immer kurz geschoren und stand borstig in die Höhe.
- His blond hair was always close-cropped and stuck out bristly.
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