Food & drink

sake

Sake is just the Japanese word for alcohol, written 酒 since the oldest Japanese chronicle; English took it for rice wine in the 1680s, and it went on to French, German, Russian and Hebrew, to Korea for the Japanese style of rice wine, and to Brazil as saquê.

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The road to English

From Japanese to Brazilian Portuguese

From Japanese to Korean

From English to French

From English to German

From English to Russian

From English to Modern Hebrew

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Hops are evenly spaced; labels show the year each form is first attested.

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