Other forms: yolks
The yolk is the yellow part inside an egg. A runny yolk, separate the yolk, break the yolk.
It is the food store for the embryo, and its colour depends entirely on what the hen ate, so a deep orange one says something about the diet and nothing about the nutrition. Almost all the fat and most of the vitamins in an egg are here.
1nounyolkThe yellow part inside an egg.
“Separate the yolks from the whites and beat them with the sugar.”
yolk is a part of an egg.
Old English geolca comes from geolu, yellow. The yolk is simply the yellow part.
Proto-Indo-European
*ǵʰelh₃-
Old English
ġeolca
Middle English
yolke
English, today
yolk
Built from
From Middle English yolke, yelke, ȝolke, ȝelke, from Old English ġeolca, ġeoloca, ġioleca (“the yellow part, yolk”), derived from Old English ġeolu (“yellow”) + -ca.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA