English
threatenable
From threaten + -able.
Formed from threaten + -able
Proto-Indo-European *trewd- ‘to push, to thrust’
Old English þrēatnian ‘to urge, force, compel’
Middle English thretenen
English threaten
Today it means
adj Capable of being threatened.
Sources
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Etymograph / threatenable