Other way around actually and blame the French for it.
If you look at the German word “trinken” and “Getränk” one means to drink and the other a drink, but they clearly evolved from each other. The word for food “essen” means both food and to eat.
Honestly a lot of English words around food and animals split from other Germanic languages because of French
I think the word drink was originally only an action, until someone started to refer to all drinkable items as “drinks” and the language adapted.
A similar thing is happening now, as people call things that can be eaten, “eats”. So you can " eat an eat"
Those were some good eats.
Other way around actually and blame the French for it.
If you look at the German word “trinken” and “Getränk” one means to drink and the other a drink, but they clearly evolved from each other. The word for food “essen” means both food and to eat.
Honestly a lot of English words around food and animals split from other Germanic languages because of French