Etymology

removeable

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English remove ← Middle English removen ← Anglo-Norman remover
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The story

  1. Proto-Italic*wre-
  2. Latinre-
  3. Proto-Indo-European*m(y)ewh₁-
  4. Proto-Indo-European*m(y)owh₁éyeti
  5. Proto-Italic*moweō
  6. Latinmoveō
  7. Latinremoveō
  8. Old Frenchremovoir
  9. Anglo-Normanremover
  10. Middle Englishremoven
  11. Englishremove
  12. English todayremoveable

From remove + -able.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.