gepeld

Gepeld is the past participle of the Dutch verb pellen, meaning to peel or shell. In everyday and culinary language it describes food from which an outer layer has been removed, such as a peeled potato (gepelde aardappel) or a peeled orange (gepelde sinaasappel). Gepeld can function as an adjective or as part of a compound tense, typically with the auxiliary hebben in perfect tenses (Ik heb de aardappels gepeld).

Morphology and usage: gepeld is a regular past participle formed with ge- attached to the stem and a final -d. It can be used attributively to describe a noun (gepelde wortels, gepelde noten) or predicatively with a finite verb (de fruitsoort is gepeld; de aardappels zijn gepeld). In conjugation, it agrees in number and definiteness according to Dutch grammar rules, as is common for adjectival participles.

Context and applications: the term is common in cooking, food preparation, and grocery labeling, where peeled products are often sold or prepared in advance. It also appears in recipes and instructions that specify removing skins, shells, or husks for texture, taste, or safety reasons. While gepeld generally refers to edible items, it can apply to any object that is peeled, including shellfish or nuts when the outer coverings are removed, though more specialized terms may be used in those contexts.

Etymology: gepeld derives from the infinitive pellen, with the standard Dutch prefix ge- used to form past participles for regular verbs. The word reflects a long-standing pattern in Dutch morphology that links preparatory actions (peeling) to descriptions of resulting state.