English
ropeable
From rope + -able.
A compound of rope + -able
Proto-Indo-European *h₁reyp- ‘to tear, tear down’
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Proto-Germanic *raipaz ‘strip’
Proto-West Germanic *raip ‘strip, band’
Old English rāp ‘rope, cord, cable’
Middle English rop ‘a rope’
English rope
Today it means
adj Able to be roped and so restrained.
Sources
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Etymograph / ropeable