köken: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *-tḗr Proto-Indo-European *-dʰlom Proto-Indo-European *-dʰlis Proto-Italic *-ðlis Latin -bilis Latin -ābilis Old French -able Middle French -able French -able Inherited from Middle French -able, from Old French -able, from Latin -ābilis.
köken: From Old Swedish -bar, borrowed from Middle Low German -bar, from Old Saxon -bari. Cognate with native Old Swedish -bǣr (Old Norse -bærr), German -bar (from Old High German -bāri), Dutch -baar, Old English -bære.
köken: From Proto-Finnic *-ttapa, Proto-Finnic *-tapa (-ttava, -tava), from *-tta- (passive infix) + *-pa (active participle). The weak grade has been generalized like in -va.
to get; to obtain; to receive. · used before a verb to indicate that one has done or has an opportunity to do the action. · used after a verb to express that the action can be or has been done.
köken: From Proto-Tai *ɗajꟲ (“to obtain”). Cognate with Lao ໄດ້ (dai), Northern Thai ᨯᩱ᩶, Lü ᦺᦡᧉ (ḋay²), Shan လႆႈ (lāi), Tai Dam ꪼꪒ꫁, Zhuang ndaej. Compare Sui qdyais (“to get, to obtain”), Southern Kam lis (“to get”), Proto-Hlai *ɗɯː (“to get”). Simpson (2001) suggests that it ultimately comes from the Middle Chinese 得 (MC tok), which was used to mean "can" at the end of a sentence, as in Thai.
From Old Galician-Portuguese -avel, from Latin -ābilis. Compare -able dialectally and in various other languages; e.g. Sicilian -àvili, for a similar morphology.