Etymology

bankable

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Today it means: Acceptable to a bank. Full definition →

English bank ← Middle French banque ← Italian banca
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The story

  1. Proto-Indo-European*bʰeg-
  2. Proto-Germanic*bankiz
  3. Proto-West Germanic*banki
  4. Lombardicbank
  5. Italianbanca
  6. Middle Frenchbanque
  7. Englishbank
  8. English todaybankable

From bank + -able.

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