The story
- French · derived fromsaké
- Japanese · borrowed from酒“rice wine”
- English todaysaké
Borrowed from Japanese 酒 (sake, “rice wine”), where the final e is accented to indicate that it is pronounced where it would usually remain silent in other senses of sake, as well as to differentiate it. Likely influenced by French saké.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.