Etymology

sardelki

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Today it means: A large, thick, boiled sausage. Full definition →

Russian сарде́льки ← Polish sardela ← Italian sardella
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The story

  1. Italian · derived fromsardella“sardine”
  2. Polish · derived fromsardela“anchovy”
  3. Russian · borrowed fromсарде́льки
  4. English todaysardelki

From Russian сарде́льки (sardélʹki), plural of сарде́лька (sardélʹka), from сарде́ль (sardélʹ, “sardine, sausage”) + -ка (-ka, diminutive suffix), from Polish sardela (“anchovy”), from Italian sardella (“sardine”), whence English sardel.

Words from the same roots

Italiansardella all →

sardelSardella

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.