English
scannable
From scan + -able.
A compound of scan + -able
Proto-Indo-European *skend- ‘to jump, dart, climb, scale, scan’
Proto-Italic *skandō
Latin scandō ‘to climb, rise, mount’
Middle English scanden ‘to scan verse’
Middle English scanne ‘to mark off verse to show metrical structure’
English scan
Today it means
adj That can be scanned; suitable for scanning.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / scannable