Where does “assignable” come from?
Assignable comes from Middle English -able, Old French assigner, Latin -abilis, Latin ad- and ad, Proto-Indo-European ád, and Proto-Indo-European sek-.
assignable (English): Capable of being assigned; Capable of being...
Definitions
- Capable of being assigned; Capable of being...
Ancestry of “assignable”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | assign | To designate or set apart something for some... |
| 2 | Middle English | assignen | to assign, allot |
| 3 | Old French | assigner | to assign |
| 4 | Latin | assignō | to appoint to, assign, distribute, allot, allocate |
| 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 |