From Middle French evitable (modern French évitable), from Latin ēvītābilis ("avoidable"), from ēvītō + -bilis. Ēvītō is derived from ē- + vītō (possibly from Proto-Indo-European *dwidʰeh₁- ("separate, set apart"), a compound of *dwi- + *dʰeh₁-).
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