Etymology

drawable

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Today it means: Capable of being drawn (represented graphically). Full definition →

English draw ← Middle English drawen ← Old English dragan
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The story

  1. Proto-Indo-European*dʰregʰ-
  2. Proto-Indo-European*dʰrógʰ-e-ti
  3. Proto-Germanic*draganą
  4. Proto-West Germanic*dragan
  5. Old Englishdragan
  6. Middle Englishdrawen
  7. Englishdraw
  8. English todaydrawable

From draw + -able.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.