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Where does “recruitable” come from?

recruitable (English) comes from English recruit, from French recruter, from German Rekrut, from French recreute, from French recrue, from Old French recreu, from Old French recreistre.

recruitable (English): Able to be recruited; Suitable for recruitment

Definitions

  1. Able to be recruited; Suitable for recruitment

Ancestry of “recruitable”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1EnglishrecruitA supply of anything wasted or exhausted; a...
2Frenchrecruterto recruit
3GermanRekrutrecruit; A soldier of the lowest rank in the...
4Frenchrecreute—
5Frenchrecruerecruit
6Old Frenchrecreu—
7Old Frenchrecreistre—

Words derived from “recruitable”

  • unrecruitable
Every word from Old French recreistre →