Where does “approachable” come from?
Approachable comes from Middle English -able, Old French -able, Latin -abilis, and Latin ad-, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European ád.
approachable (English): Easily approached; easy to talk to
Definitions
- Easily approached; easy to talk to
Ancestry of “approachable”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | approach | To come or go near, in place or time; to draw... |
| 2 | Middle English | aprochen | — |
| 3 | Old French | aprochier | to approach |
| 4 | Latin | approprio | I make it my own, appropriate |
| 5 | Latin | ad- | to; usually prefixed to verbs, in which cases it... |
| 6 | Latin | īn- | un-, non-, not |
| 7 | Latin | în | in, at, on, upon, from (space) |
| 8 | Latin | en | lookǃ beholdǃ; reallyǃ?; come onǃ |
| 9 | Proto-Italic | en | in |
| 10 | Proto-Indo-European | h₁én | in |