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Where does “motorable” come from?

motorable (English) comes from English motor, from Middle English motour, from Latin motor, from Latin -tor, from Proto-Italic -tōr, from Proto-Indo-European -tōr, from Proto-Indo-European -tor-s.

motorable (English): Which can be traveled on by motor cars

Definitions

  1. Which can be traveled on by motor cars

Ancestry of “motorable”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1EnglishmotorA machine or device that converts other energy...
2Middle Englishmotour—
3Latinmotormover; that which moves something; first-person...
4Latin-tor-er
5Proto-Italic-tōr—
6Proto-Indo-European-tōrDerives agent nouns from verbs, denoting someone...
7Proto-Indo-European-tor-s—

Words derived from “motorable”

  • unmotorable
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