abträglich

Abträglich is a term that is not established in standard German. It does not appear in major dictionaries such as Duden and is rarely found in contemporary published texts. When it does occur, it is typically treated as a misspelling or as a nonce word rather than as a stable technical term.

Because there is no widely accepted definition, any proposed sense is speculative and highly dependent on context. A plausible but unverified reconstruction would treat abträglich as a compound of ab- (away, removal) with a root related to tragen or tragbar (to bear, to carry), suggesting a meaning like “able to be removed” or “prone to removal.” This would be analogous in spirit to abtragbar, a term used in engineering and materials science to denote wear-prone or erodible properties. However, abträglich remains unstandardized and is not used in formal German technical writing.

In practice, readers encountering abträglich should check the surrounding text for clues about intended meaning, and consider replacing it with a standard term such as abtragbar (wear-prone/erodible) or with a more common form like tragbar or erträglich, depending on the actual sense the author intends. Without a clear definition, the term is best treated as ambiguous or erroneous in most contexts.

See also: Abtrag, Abtragung, Abnutzung, Abtragbarkeit, Tragbarkeit.