mutable

The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Etymology | 1996 | 298 words | Copyright

mutable XIV. — L. mūtābilis; see -ABLE.
So mutation XIV. — L. mūtātiō, -ōn-, f. mūtāre, mūtāt- change, f. IE. *moit-, extension of the base *moi- *mei-, repr. also in MEAN2, etc. Hence, by back-formation, mutate (-ATE3) XIX.

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