Yin and Yang (Fish albums) Yin and Yang (Fish albums) Yin and Yang are the titles of two separate compilation albums by Fish co-released in 1995. They are a retrospective on Fish's four solo albums and four albums with Marillion. "Yin" and "Yang" were released on Fish's independent label Dick Bros Record Company. There also was a "radio edits" promotional release containing eight tracks, each with a roughly one-minute-long introduction spoken by Fish. This CD was also available as a fan-club mail-order edition. Some of the 26 tracks (13 on each album) have been re-recorded (including all by Marillion) or remixed, others remain in their
Yin and yang < *"ʔəm" compares with Burmese "ʔum" "overcast; cloudy", Adi "muk-jum" "shade", and Lepcha "so'yǔm" "shade"; and is probably cognate with Chinese "àn" < *"ʔə̂mʔ" "dim; gloomy" and "qīn" < *"khəm" "blanket" "Yang" < *"laŋ" compares with Lepcha "a-lóŋ" "reflecting light", Burmese "laŋ" "be bright" and "ə-laŋ" "light"; and is perhaps cognate with Chinese "chāng" < *"k-hlaŋ" "prosperous; bright"; "bǐng" < *"braŋʔ" "bright"; "liàng" < "*raŋh" "(pale) light"; "lǎng" < "raŋʔ" "brilliant light"; "míng" < "mraŋ" "bright, become light, enlighten". Schuessler surmises that those items either are areal words (cf. Tai "plaŋ" "bright") or belong to an Austroasiatic word family (cf.