Etymology

seeable

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Today it means: Able to be seen; visible. Full definition →

English see ← Middle English seen ← Old English sēon
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The story

  1. Proto-Indo-European*sekʷ-
  2. Proto-Germanic*sehwaną
  3. Proto-West Germanic*sehwan
  4. Old Englishsēon
  5. Middle Englishseen
  6. Englishsee
  7. English todayseeable

From see + -able.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.