venal, capable of being bribed or prostituted · for sale, vendible, purchasable (now at most predicatively with sein, stehen, and in the compounds below)
eş: käuflich, verkäuflich
köken: From Middle High German veile, from Old High German feili (“for sale”), from Proto-West Germanic *failī. Possibly merged with a descendant of Proto-Germanic *falaz, but this is uncertain. Old High German fali is only attested once in a text that uses ai for ei, thus quite plausibly a mere scribal error (regarding also that short a should be umlauted to e). Cognate with Dutch veil. From *falaz…