The story
- Latin · derived fromiūniperus“juniper”
- Vulgar Latin · derived fromziniperus
- Old French · derived fromgenevre
- Dutch · borrowed fromjenever“jenever”
- English todayjenever
Borrowed from Dutch jenever (“jenever”), from Old French genevre, from Vulgar Latin ziniperus, from Latin iūniperus (“juniper”).
Words from the same roots
Latiniūniperus all →
juniperoneseed juniper
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.