Etymograph

English

slakable

From slake + -able.

Formed from slake + -able

Proto-Germanic *slakaz ‘weak’

Proto-West Germanic *slak ‘weak’

Old English slæc ‘slack’

Old English sleacian

Middle English slaken ‘to render slack, to slake’

English slake

Today it means

adj Capable of being slaked.

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

Etymograph / slakable