Etymology

surmountable

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Today it means: Able to be surmounted or overcome; defeatable. Full definition →

English surmount ← Middle English surmounten ← Old French sormonter
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The story

  1. Proto-Indo-European*úp
  2. Proto-Indo-European*upér
  3. Proto-Italic*super
  4. Latinsuper
  5. Latinsuper-
  6. Old Frenchsur-
  7. Proto-Indo-European*men-
  8. Proto-Indo-European*móntis
  9. Proto-Italic*monts
  10. Latinmōns
  11. Vulgar Latin*montāre
  12. Old Frenchmonter
  13. Old Frenchsormonter
  14. Middle Englishsurmounten
  15. Englishsurmount
  16. English todaysurmountable

From surmount + -able.

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