Meaning: yellow

Illustrative Context

Egg yolk is yellow.

Target sense

• The most basic colour term (usually adjectival) for yellow, as for example would be used to refer to the natural color of egg yolk (as in the illustrative context).
• Provide only the most basic and general colour term, however, that can also be applied much more widely. (That is: do not, of course, give any narrower terms specific to egg yolk, or compounds such as ‘egg-yellow’.)
• The term entered must belong to basic colour vocabulary in the language. Avoid all and any near-synonymous but hyponym lexemes, which refer to a narrower colour range than the basic colour term for ‘yellow’, or to sub-shades of it: e.g. saffron, ochre.
• The basic term that covers the illustrative context here may or may not, depending on the language, be distinct from English orange. This is not in itself a concern, provided the other guidelines here are met.
• Avoid terms specific to other, narrower senses, e.g. specifically for ‘yellow’ hair colour, gold or other metals, the colour of yellow sunlight, etc..
• The literal colour term. Avoid lexemes predominantly used for figurative extensions, e.g. yellow as seen as representing cowardice, ill-health, etc..
• See also the target sense definitions for other colour terms in IE-CoR: red, green,black and white.