viini

Etymology 1


Borrowed from, from. .

Noun

 * 1) wine alcoholic drink made from grapes
 * 2) wine alcoholic drink made from fruit other than grapes; usually prefixed with the name of the fruit
 * 3) vine the plant, or another of the same genus; by extension of other climbing plants

Etymology 2


Possibly a backformation based on viineke, an irregular dialectal variant of, from the same root √viile- as , 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.

Noun

 * 1) quiver