Etymology

pocketable

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Today it means: Able to be put in one's pocket. Full definition →

English pocket ← Middle English pocket ← Anglo-Norman poket
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The story

  1. Proto-Germanic*puhô
  2. Frankish*pokō
  3. Old Frenchpoche
  4. Anglo-Normanpoket
  5. Middle Englishpocket
  6. Englishpocket
  7. English todaypocketable

From pocket + -able.

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