The word that today means green "yarok" was used in the past to describe gold and an egg: http://www.balashon.com/2006/08/yarok.html?m=1
They were the colors if plant growth - green in summer and yellow in autumn.
https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/Reconstruction:Proto-Indo-E...
They were the colors if plant growth - green in summer and yellow in autumn.
https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/Reconstruction:Proto-Indo-E...