English
spendable
Spendable comes from Middle English spendable.
- Middle Englishc. 1150–1500spendable
- Englishearliest quotation 1969spendable
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed deepest recorded ancestor
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- Middle Englishc. 1150–1500spendable
- Englishearliest quotation 1969spendable
Earliest quotation: 1969, a Angelou, New York: Bantam: “He had told me once that “all knowledge is…”.
Formed from spend + -able
Proto-Indo-European *(s)pend- ‘to stretch’
…
Latin expendō ‘to weigh’
Proto-West Germanic *spendōn ‘to spend’
Old English spendan ‘to spend’
Middle English spenden ‘to spend’
English spend
Every English word from Middle English spendable
Today it means
adj Capable of being spent.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Middle English spendable / spendable