The intermediate light in a set of three traffic lights, the illumination of which indicates that drivers should stop short of the intersection if it is safe to do so.
One of the colour balls used in snooker, with a value of 2 points.
One of two groups of object balls, or a ball from that group, as used in the principally British version of pool that makes use of unnumbered balls (the (yellow(s) and red(s)); contrast stripes and solids in the originally American version with numbered balls).
From Middle English yelow, from Old English ġeolwe, oblique form of of Old English ġeolu, from Proto-West Germanic *gelu, from Proto-Germanic *gelwaz, from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰelh₃wos, from *ǵʰelh₃-
Compare Welsh gwelw ("pale"), Latin helvus ("dull yellow"), Irish geal ("white, bright"), Lithuanian žalias ("green"), Ancient Greek χλωρός ("light green"), Persian زرد ("yellow"), Sanskrit हरि ("greenish-yellow"). Cognate with German gelb ("yellow"), Dutch geel ("yellow").
The verb is from Old English ġeolwian, from the adjective.
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