English
shadable
From shade + -able.
Formed from shade + -able
Proto-Indo-European *(s)ḱeh₃- ‘darkness, shadow’
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Proto-Germanic *skaduz ‘a shadow’
Proto-West Germanic *skadu ‘shadow’
Old English sċeadu ‘shadow’
Middle English schade ‘a shadow’
English shade
Today it means
adj Of a drawing, etc.: capable of being shaded.
Sources
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