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RE: [romconlang] -able

Thank you!
Is the first "i" in "-ible" long or short?
S

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From: romconlang@yahoogroups.com [mailto:romconlang@yahoogroups.com] On
Behalf Of B Garcia
Sent: Sunday, April 13, 2008 10:22 PM
To: romconlang@yahoogroups.com
Subject: Re: [romconlang] -able



On Sun, Apr 13, 2008 at 8:45 PM, Scotto Hlad <scott.hlad@telus.
<mailto:scott.hlad%40telus.net> net> 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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