Etymograph

English

shockability

From shock + -ability.

Formed from shock + -ability

Proto-Germanic *skukkaną ‘to move, shake, tremble’

Old Dutch *skokkan ‘to shake up and down’

Middle Dutch schokken ‘to push, jolt, shake’

English shock

Today it means

noun The condition of being shockable; the capacity to be shocked.

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

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