English
swearable
From swear + -able.
Formed from swear + -able
Proto-Indo-European *swer- ‘to swear’
Proto-Germanic *swarjaną ‘to speak’
Proto-West Germanic *swarjan ‘to swear’
Old English swerian ‘to swear’
Middle English sweren ‘to take an oath that an assertion is true’
English swear
Today it means
adj Able to be sworn in.
Sources
Sources: Wiktionary, “swearable”. 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 / swearable