selderij

Dutch

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/
selderij (file)
Hyphenation: sel‧de‧rij
Rhymes: -ɛi̯

Noun

selderij m (plural selderijen, diminutive selderijtje n)

The herb celery, 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)

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