Etymology

merchantableness

Today it means: Quality of being merchantable. Full definition →

English merchantable ← Middle English marchaunt ← Anglo-Norman marchaunt
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The story

  1. Proto-Italic*merks
  2. Latinmerx
  3. Latinmercor
  4. Latinmercāns
  5. Anglo-Normanmarchaunt
  6. Middle Englishmarchaunt
  7. Englishmerchant
  8. Englishmerchantable
  9. English todaymerchantableness

From merchantable + -ness.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.