... but the color name most associated with the mineral gold in Old English poetry was "red"); German gelb; Latin helvus "yellowish, bay," Avestan zari-, Lithuanian geltonas, Polish bzolty/b, Russian zeltyj; and Sanskrit harih "yellow, tawny yellow," hiranyam "gold."b..../b Among the other are ranch "large cattle-breeding bestate/b" (1831), from American Spanish rancho "small farm, group of farm huts," from Spanish rancho, which originally meant "group of people who eat together. ...
