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Vermouth

3 stages from German to English.

Today it means a fortified wine flavored with aromatic herbs and spices
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Wermut
German · medieval
"wormwood"
wormwood, the bitter herb historically used to flavor fortified wine
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vermout
French · 1800s
"an aromatic fortified wine"
adapted into French for the aromatic fortified wine
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vermouth
English · 1806
"an aromatic fortified wine flavored with herbs"
adopted directly for the herb-flavored fortified wine
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