Gollum questions.

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Originally Posted by jallanite

[/INDENT]The element fallow ‘brownish yellow’ used here derives from Old English fealo ‘dull-coloured, yellow, yellowish red, brown’ from the Indo-European base *pel- ‘dark-coloured, grey’. It is not at all related to fallow ‘land plowed but left unsown’ from Old English fealg ‘harrow’ from Indo-European *polkā- ‘something turned’ from another base *pel- ‘to turn’.

You know since I know what a fallow deer is, and why it is called so, I should have known this. I though it has something to do with "pale" but though I was getting fallow confused with "sallow"