Ethiopia is considered to be where coffee came from. It was founded in Ethiopia by Kaldi, an Ethiopian goat herder in around 800AD.

The earliest term for the drink of coffee was the Arabic word “qahwah”, which actually referred to a type of wine.

There, legend says the goat herder Kaldi first discovered the potential of these beloved beans. The story goes that that Kaldi discovered coffee after he noticed that after eating the berries from a certain tree, his goats became so energetic that they did not want to sleep at nigh

The Ottoman Turks then used the term “kahve”, which was followed by the Dutch word “koffie”, from which the English name was derived in 1582.

Source: Nescafe National Coffee Association