Where does “stealable” come from?

stealable (English) comes from English steal, from Middle English stele, from Old English stela, from Proto-Germanic stelaną, from Proto-Indo-European tsel- — to sneak.

stealable (English): Able to be stolen

Definitions

  1. Able to be stolen

Ancestry of “stealable”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1EnglishstealTo take illegally, or without the owner's...
2Middle Englishstelesteel
3Old Englishstelastalk (of a plant)
4Proto-Germanicstelanąto steal; to sneak
5Proto-Indo-Europeantsel-to sneak

Words derived from “stealable”

Every word from Proto-Indo-European tsel- →