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Re: -able

From:<morphemeaddict@...>
Date:Monday, April 14, 2008, 6:49
In a message dated 4/13/2008 23:47:47 PM Central Daylight Time,
scott.hlad@TELUS.NET writes:


> 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 >
My first guess is that it's from Latin "-abilis". stevo </HTML>

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T. A. McLeay <conlang@...>