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Juice comes from Middle English jus, from Old French jus, from Latin iūs ‘broth, sauce’, ultimately from PIE *yewH- ‘to mix’.

1. Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*yewH-¹‘to mix (of meal preparation)’reconstructed
2. Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*yéwHs¹‘soup, broth’reconstructed
3. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEiūs¹‘broth, soup, sauce’
4. Old Frenchc. 842–1400jus¹
5. Middle Englishc. 1150–1500jus¹
6. Englishearliest quotation 1884juice¹

1. ¹ Wiktionary, English juice
2. Earliest quotation in Wiktionary’s entry: 1884, Alfales Young, Letter from Salt Lake City: “This chance manner of her laying herself fallow gives…”.