English
skinable
From skin + -able.
Formed from skin + -able
Proto-Indo-European *sken- ‘to split off’
Proto-Germanic *skinþą ‘animal hide’
Old Norse skinn ‘animal hide’
Old English scinn ‘a skin’
Middle English skyn ‘a hide’
English skin
Today it means
adj —
Sources
Sources: Wiktionary, “skinable”. By Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0, via kaikki.org (dump of Oct 3 2026); text adapted and restructured. Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word. License.
Etymograph / skinable