さけ
alcoholic drink, Japanese rice wine
Water out of a wine jar, which covers the whole category fairly. Too much of it and now the room is moving. English borrowed the word whole: sake, さけ.
お酒 with the polite お is what you actually say. On its own 酒 also narrows to Japanese rice wine.
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