Etymology

cartable

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Today it means: Able to be carted or carried. Full definition →

English cart ← Middle English cart ← Old English cræt
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The story

  1. Old Norsekartr
  2. Proto-Germanic*kradô
  3. Proto-West Germanic*krat
  4. Old Englishcræt
  5. Middle Englishcart
  6. Englishcart
  7. English todaycartable

From cart + -able.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.