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Where does “allowable” come from?
allowable (Middle English) comes from Old French alouable, from Old French allouer.
Ancestry of “allowable”, step by step
Step
Language
Word
Meaning
1
Old French
alouable
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2
Old French
allouer
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Words derived from “allowable”
allowable
unallowable
allowably
nonallowable
allowableness
unallowably
unallowableness
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