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lengthenable

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English

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Etymology

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From lengthen +‎ -able.

Adjective

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lengthenable (comparative more lengthenable, superlative most lengthenable)

  1. That may be lengthened.
    • 1974, John Mathieson Anderson, Charles Jones, Historical Linguistics: Theory and description in phonology, page 319:
      If we consider the etymological sources of the two sets of vowels, the lengthenable and non-lengthenable []