English
spillable
From spill + -able.
Formed from spill + -able
Proto-Indo-European *(s)pel- ‘to sunder, split, rend, tear’
Proto-Germanic *spilþijaną ‘to spoil, kill, murder’
Proto-West Germanic *spilþijan ‘to spoil, ruin’
Old English spillan ‘to kill, destroy, waste’
Middle English spillen ‘to demolish, liquidate, or ruin’
English spill
Today it means
adj Capable of being spilled.
Sources
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