Where does “intolerabel” come from?
intolerabel (Dutch) comes from French intolérable, from Latin intolerabilis, from Latin tolerabilis, from Latin -bilis, from Proto-Italic -ðlis, from Proto-Indo-European -dʰlis, from Proto-Indo-European -dʰlom — Alternative form of *-trom; instrumental suffix;...
intolerabel (Dutch): intolerable
Definitions
- intolerable
Ancestry of “intolerabel”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | French | intolérable | intolerable |
| 2 | Latin | intolerabilis | intolerable, insupportable; impatient |
| 3 | Latin | tolerabilis | bearable, supportable, endurable, passable,... |
| 4 | Latin | -bilis | -ble |
| 5 | Proto-Italic | -ðlis | Forms adjectives from verb stems indicating capacity or worth of being acted on |
| 6 | Proto-Indo-European | -dʰlis | — |
| 7 | Proto-Indo-European | -dʰlom | Alternative form of *-trom; instrumental suffix;... |