vine

Vine comes from Middle English vyne, borrowed from Anglo-Norman vigne, tracing back through Vulgar Latin vīnia to Latin vīnea ("vines in a vineyard"), itself from vīneus ("related to wine"), from vīnum ("wine"). Further back lies Proto-Italic *wīnom and Proto-Indo-European *wóyh₁nom, rooted in *weh₁y- ("to twist, wrap").

The word began as a description tied specifically to wine-producing plants, from vīnum ("wine") through vīneus and vīnea, before settling in English as the general term for the climbing, twisting plant itself.

Vine is a doublet of wine — both descend from the same Latin root vīnum, having traveled into English by different paths.