wine

English wine comes from Old English wīn, from Proto-West Germanic *wīn, from Proto-Germanic *wīną, which arrived either straight from or through Latin vīnum, itself from Proto-Italic *wīnom and ultimately Proto-Indo-European *wóyh₁nom, meaning 'wine.'

The word has stayed remarkably stable in both sound and meaning as it passed from Proto-Indo-European through Latin and Germanic languages into Old and Middle English, arriving at modern English wine largely unchanged.

Wine is a doublet of vine and vino, meaning all three ultimately trace back to the same root, having taken different paths into English. It also has cognates across the Germanic family, including German Wein, Dutch wijn, and Icelandic vín.