Saturday, October 13, 2007

yellow

shali : yellow

The Tarijan word for the color yellow is shali.

International locations:
Shali is a town in the Chechen Republic, Russia. The Egyptian ruins of Shali date back to the 13th century.

How I came up with this word:
Shali is a mixture of the transliterated word for yellow in Mongolian which is shar (шар), and the transliterated word for yellow in Russian which is zheltyi or zholtih (желтый).

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