@aint-summer-here replied to your post:“Is there anything you can tell me about Mando colour symbolism that...”:
The Mandalorians often worked with Sith- would the yellow eyes of Dark Lords have any affect on yellow's connotations?
You know ... I didn’t even think about that, but now that you’ve pointed it out, so many things suddenly click into place.
Especially considering that, say, the Mandalorian Wars came as a result of Sith manipulations---and working with them nearly resulted in their total annihilation, also at the hands of a “Dark Lord” (Revan). That Dark Lords and Sith have never really held any particularly good position, I can see how that would have affected how yellow is treated in language and across the general cultural landscape.
It certainly puts the whole shi’yayc = barely alive, not quite dead, and/or small / dying flame in a wholly different context and take on a different meaning, but after working with mando’a for so long, I generally wouldn’t put it past mandalorians to sneak obscure references and colloquial meaning within the layers of their words.
But now I’m wondering if mandalorians view Dark Lords / Sith as zombies lmao
