Etymograph

English

fileable

From file + -able.

Formed from file + -able

Proto-Indo-European *gʷʰiH-(s-)lo- ‘sinew’

Proto-Italic *fī(s)lom

Latin fīlum ‘thread’

Old French fil ‘thread’

English file

Today it means

adj Capable of being filed (in various senses).

Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.

Etymograph / fileable