sallow

From Middle English salowe, from Old English salu, from Proto-West Germanic salu, from Proto-Germanic salwaz, from Proto-Indo-European *selH-. See also Dutch zaluw, dialectal German sal; also Irish salach (“dirty”), Welsh halog, Latin salīva, Russian соло́вый (solóvyj, “cream-colored”), and - through Frankish - French sale.

From Middle English salow, salwe, from Old English sealh, from Proto-West Germanic salh, from Proto-Germanic salhaz, masculine variant of salhō, salhijǭ, from Proto-Indo-European sh₂lk-, sh₂lik-. See also Low German Sal, Saal; Swedish sälg; also Welsh helyg, Latin salix (and also a doublet of the thence derived English borrowing salix) probably originally a borrowing from some other language.