Talk:yellow-red

RFV discussion: June–July 2021
I would be very surprised if this term didn't exist at all in Modern English, but I would also be surprised if it could be classified as anything other than (uncommon), (rare), or (poetic).

In any case, as it is, it currently has no citations. Tharthan (talk) 16:36, 30 June 2021 (UTC)


 * It is not hard to find phrases like "yellow-red leaves", but such citations might mean "varying yellow and red ones" rather than specifically orange. Equinox ◑ 16:40, 30 June 2021 (UTC)
 * Two cites identify "yellow-red" with "cadmium orange". Several cites describe a method of synthesizing "yellow-red needle-shaped crystals", although this latter could mean "yellow and red".__Gamren (talk) 21:30, 30 June 2021 (UTC)


 * I put one citation which provides a decent amount of detail about which color is meant at Citations:yellow-red; OTOH, contrast this. - -sche (discuss) 00:22, 1 July 2021 (UTC)

I have an old color wheel, maybe from the 1930s or 40s?, where orange is labeled 'yellow red', and is presented as an intermediate color like blue-green. That is, not like -sche's example, but the expected term for the color. So it's definitely Modern English in the sense of dating after 1600. But I suspect it's been quite rare since the 1960s or so. kwami (talk) 07:22, 2 July 2021 (UTC)


 * Btw, a lot of results look like modern SOP hyphenations (a la "Australian-Saudi Arabian diplomatic relations"), as they also string together e.g. red-purple and purple-blue. Even the ones which don't look quite SOP still compare e.g. blue-green (apparently a modern compound) and yellow-green (ditto) and make me doubt this is a survival (apparently without attestation in Middle English?) from Old English, as opposed to being a modern compound. But if this existed in Middle English and Early Modern English, that would be evidence that it was a continuation from Old English (as far as the etymology is concerned). - -sche (discuss) 14:51, 4 July 2021 (UTC)
 * (I guess the existence of yellowred guarantees this an entry regardless of whether it's SOP, though.) - -sche (discuss) 15:26, 6 July 2021 (UTC)

RFV-passed Kiwima (talk) 22:42, 11 July 2021 (UTC)