selderij

Dutch

Apium graveolens

Selderij, klaar om gegeten te worden.

Alternative forms

• selderie

Etymology

Borrowed from French céleri, from Latin selīnum, from Ancient Greek σέλῑνον (sélīnon). For the epenthetic d, which was productive well into the seventeenth century, compare kelder, zolder, daalder, mulder, vilder, volder.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˌsɛl.dəˈrɛi̯/

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• Hyphenation: sel‧de‧rij
• Rhymes: -ɛi̯

Noun

selderij m (plural selderijen, diminutive selderijtje n)

1. celery (a herb, Apium graveolens)

   Synonyms: eppe (dialectal), soepgroente (Suriname)

   Hypernym: moerasscherm

Derived terms

• bleekselderij
• knolselderij

 

Related terms

• peterselie

Descendants

• Afrikaans: seldery
• → Caribbean Javanese: slèdri
• → Belarusian: сельдэрэ́й (sjelʹderéj)
• → Malay: seladeri

• Malay: saderi (by elision)
• Indonesian: seledri

• → Papiamentu: sèlder, sèldu, selde, selder
• → Russian: сельдере́й (selʹderéj), селлере́й (selleréj), селере́й (seleréj), сендере́й (senderéj)
  • → Kyrgyz: сельдерей (selderey)
  • → Tatar: сельдерей (sel’derey)
  • → Turkmen: seldereý
  • → Uzbek: selderey
  • → Yiddish: סעלדעריי (selderey)

Further reading

• selderij on the Dutch Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^nl