Etymology

breakable

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Today it means: Able to break or be broken. Full definition →

English break ← Middle English breken ← Old English brecan
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The story

  1. Proto-Indo-European*bʰreg-
  2. Proto-Indo-European*bʰrégeti
  3. Proto-Germanic*brekaną
  4. Proto-West Germanic*brekan
  5. Old Englishbrecan
  6. Middle Englishbreken
  7. Englishbreak
  8. English todaybreakable

From break + -able.

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