Reckonable
/ˈrɛk.ən.ə.bəl/noun
Able to be counted, calculated, or considered.
Did you know?Its core verb, reckon, ultimately comes from a Germanic root meaning “to arrange in a row,” which is why counting and accounting were once imagined as a kind of ordered reckoning of reality.
Etymological Timeline
Proto-Germanic
PGmc
*raknaną
“to arrange, explain, count up”
Old English
OE
gerecenian
“to recount, explain, narrate”
Middle English
ME
rekenen
“to count, calculate, consider”
Late Middle English
ME
reckonable
“able to be counted or accounted for”
Modern English
English
reckonable
“able to be counted, calculated, or considered”