Etymograph

English

fleeceable

From fleece + -able.

A compound of fleece + -able

Proto-Indo-European *plews- ‘to pull out, pluck’

Proto-Germanic *fleusaz

Proto-West Germanic *fleus

Old English flēos

Middle English fles ‘a sheepskin or fleece’

English fleece

Today it means

adj able to be fleeced; naive and gullible

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

Etymograph / fleeceable