Etymology

stretchable

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Today it means: Capable of being stretched. Full definition →

English stretch ← Middle English strecchen ← Old English streċċan
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The story

  1. Proto-Germanic*strakaz
  2. Proto-West Germanic*strak
  3. Proto-West Germanic*strakkjan
  4. Old Englishstreċċan
  5. Middle Englishstrecchen
  6. Englishstretch
  7. English todaystretchable

From stretch + -able.

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