Etymology

crackable

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Today it means: Able to be cracked or fractured. Full definition →

English crack ← Middle English crakken ← Old English cracian
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The story

  1. Proto-Indo-European*gerh₂-
  2. Proto-Indo-European*gerg-
  3. Proto-West Germanic*krakōn
  4. Old Englishcracian
  5. Middle Englishcrakken
  6. Englishcrack
  7. English todaycrackable

From crack + -able.

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