wineShow more viinittääShow more Finnish Wikipedia has an article on:viiniWikipedia fi Borrowed from Swedish vin (“wine”), from Old Norse vín. Doublet with viina. Possibly a backformation based on viineke, an irregular dialectal variant of viileke (“band, strap”), from the same root √viile- as viiltää (“to slit”), from older vije-. Though appearing in writing since the 16th century, the word is unattested in colloquial speech and may be an old literary coinage.Show more Source:
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