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\ \ [OE] Wine comes from Latin vīnum. This was borrowed into prehistoric Germanic as *wīnam, which subsequently evolved into German wein, Dutch wijn, Swedish and Danish vin, and English wine. It also gave French vin and Italian and Spanish vino, and was extensively acquired by other Indo-European languages, including Russian and Serbo-Croat vino, Polish wino, Lithuanian vynas, and Welsh gwin. The Latin word itself came from an ancient Mediterranean source, possibly non- Indo-European, which also produced Greek oínoswine’ (source of English oenology [19]), Albanian vēnewine’, and Armenian giniwine’. The same ancestral term also fed into the Semitic languages, giving Arabic wain, Hebrew yayin, and Assyrian īnnwine’. Latin vīnum additionally gave English vintage and vintner, and its derivative vīneavineyard, vine’ produced English vine [13].
\ \ Cf.OENOLOGY, VINE, VINTAGE, VINTNER

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