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Re: [romconlang] -able

• From: "B Garcia" <Montrei13@hidden.email>
• Date: Sun, 13 Apr 2008 22:21:33 -0700
• Subject: Re: [romconlang] -able
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On Sun, Apr 13, 2008 at 8:45 PM, Scotto Hlad <scott.hlad@hidden.email> wrote:
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> I'm looking for the derivation of the suffix "-able" which we have in
>  English which appears the same in French and as "-avel" in Portugese.
>  Any ideas?
>  Scotto
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Pretty straightforward. Ralph Penny gives:

-ABILE, -IBILE, giving words like inoxidable, movible. Bartleby says
the suffixes come from "habilis" - "able"

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