Etymograph

English

resalable

From re- + sale + -able.

Formed from re + sale + able

Proto-Indo-European *reh₁ís ‘wealth’

Proto-Italic *reis ‘thing’

Latin rēs ‘thing’

Latin rē

English re

Proto-Indo-European *selh₁- ‘to grab’

Proto-Germanic *salō ‘delivery’

Old Norse sala

Old English sala ‘act of selling’

Middle English sale

English sale

Proto-Indo-European *gʰeh₁bʰ- ‘to grab, take’

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Latin habeō ‘to have’

Latin habilis ‘easily managed, held, or handled’

Old Northern French able ‘able’

Middle English able ‘capable’

English able

Today it means

adj Capable of being resold.

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

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