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Germanic peoples bought wine from Roman traders and took the Latin name with it; vīnum itself belongs to an old Mediterranean word shared with Greek oînos and Hebrew yayin. From Latin and Germanic it passed to Celts, Slavs, Finns and Yiddish speakers, and the Romance languages carried vino to the Americas.

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