gelb

== German == === Alternative forms === gehl (regional) gälb, gäl, geel, gel, gelh, gell (all obsolete) === Etymology === 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 === IPA(key): /ɡɛlp/ Rhymes: -ɛlp === Adjective === gelb (strong nominative masculine singular gelber, comparative gelber, superlative am gelbsten) yellow Synonyms: honigfarben, senffarben (politics, Germany, relational) related to the FDP (a libertarian and market-economy promoting political party in Germany) (archaic) blond Synonym: blond ==== Declension ==== ==== Hyponyms ==== ==== Derived terms ==== === Further reading === “gelb” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache “gelb” in Uni Leipzig: Wortschatz-Lexikon “gelb” in Duden online “gelb” in OpenThesaurus.de gelb on the German Wikipedia.Wikipedia de