English
makeable
Makeable comes from Middle English makable.
- Middle Englishc. 1150–1500makable
- Englishearliest quotation 2009makeable
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed
Lineage
- Middle Englishc. 1150–1500makable
- Englishearliest quotation 2009makeable
Earliest quotation: 2009, Doug Smith, Surging Raptors stave off buzzer beating by Nets: “Devin Harris missed an eminently makeable little jump shot…”
Formed from make + -able
Proto-Germanic *makaz ‘fit, suitable, agreeable’
Proto-West Germanic *mak ‘fit, suitable’
Proto-West Germanic *makōn ‘to make suitable; to build, make’
Old English macian ‘to make, build, work’
Middle English maken
English make
Every English word from Middle English makable
Today it means
adj Able to be made.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Middle English makable / makeable