Where does “playable” come from?
Playable comes from Middle English play combined with the suffix -able, which derives from Latin placitum through -abilis, ultimately from Latin placere meaning to please or be acceptable.
playable (English): Able to be played; Of a move, giving a reasonable...
Definitions
- Able to be played; Of a move, giving a reasonable...
Ancestry of “playable”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | play | To act in a manner such that one has fun; to... |
| 2 | Middle English | pleye | Happiness, mirth, jolliness, or gaiety; Fun,... |
| 3 | Old English | pleġa | exercise |
| 4 | Proto-West Germanic | plegō | care; an exercise; a game |
| 5 | Proto-West Germanic | -ō | Creates adverbs from adjectives; Creates agent... |
| 6 | Proto-Germanic | -ô | -ly; Forms agent nouns, often from the zero-grade... |
| 7 | Proto-Indo-European | -ō | Derives nouns from roots |