Etymology

claimable

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Today it means: Able to be claimed. Full definition →

English claim ← Middle English claimen ← Old French clamer
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The story

  1. Proto-Indo-European*kelh₁-
  2. Proto-Indo-European*kl̥h₁m-
  3. Proto-Italic*klām-
  4. Latinclamāre
  5. Old Frenchclamer
  6. Middle Englishclaimen
  7. Englishclaim
  8. English todayclaimable

From claim + -able.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.