Word Origin Summary

*wini is attested in Proto-West Germanic. Follow the ancestry chain below to trace where this term came from and how it branched into later descendants.

Descendants and Related Terms

• wini

  Old High German · inherited from

• Wijnbergen

  Dutch · inherited from

• wine

  Middle High German · inherited from

• wini

  Old Saxon · inherited from

• wini

  Old Dutch · inherited from

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• 🔤Cognates — related words in other languages sharing the same root