English

forageable

From forage + -able.

Formed from forage + -able

Proto-Indo-European *peh₂- ‘to protect, to feed’

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Frankish *fōdar ‘fodder, sheath’

Old French fuerre ‘fodder, straw’

Old French fourage ‘animal fodder’

Middle English forage

Today it means

adj Capable of being foraged.

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

Etymograph / forageable