Where does “kinine” come from?

kinine (Dutch) comes from French quinine, from Spanish quina, from Latin quina, from Latin quini, from Latin quinque, from Proto-Italic kʷenkʷe, from Proto-Indo-European pénkʷe — five.

kinine (Dutch): quinine

Definitions

  1. quinine

Ancestry of “kinine”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Frenchquininequinine
2Spanishquinaquinine; toxic wine; double five
3Latinquinanominative neuter plural of quīnī; accusative...
4Latinquinifive each; five at a time
5Latinquinquefive; 5
6Proto-Italickʷenkʷefive
7Proto-Indo-Europeanpénkʷefive

Words derived from “kinine”

Every word from Proto-Indo-European pénkʷe →Every word from Proto-Italic kʷenkʷe →Every word from Latin quinque →