Tillable
/ˈtɪl.ə.bəl/noun
Able to be cultivated or plowed for crops.
Did you know?The root behind *till* goes back to Old English *tilian*, meaning to labor, strive, or cultivate, so the word originally carried the sense of hard, deliberate effort rather than simple farming.
Etymological Timeline
Old English
OE
tilian
“to labor, strive, work at, cultivate”
Middle English
ME
tillen
“to cultivate the soil; to work land”
Late Middle English
ME
tillable
“capable of being cultivated”
Modern English
English
tillable
“able to be plowed and used for growing crops”