Etymology

fillable

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Today it means: able to be filled Full definition →

English fill ← Middle English fillen ← Old English fyllan
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The story

  1. Proto-Indo-European*pleh₁-
  2. Proto-Indo-European*pl̥h₁nós
  3. Proto-Germanic*fullaz
  4. Proto-Germanic*fullijaną
  5. Proto-West Germanic*fullijan
  6. Old Englishfyllan
  7. Middle Englishfillen
  8. Englishfill
  9. English todayfillable

From fill + -able.

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