If you want to know where you’re going, look back at where you started. The history
The usual words for “ink” in Latin was atramentum (source of Old French arrement), literally “anything that serves to dye black,” from ater “black;” the Greek word was melan, neuter of melas “black.” The Old English word for it was blæc, literally “black,” and compare Swedish bläk, Danish blæk “ink.” Spanish and Portuguese (tinta) and German (tinte) get their “ink” words from Latin tinctus “a dyeing.”
source: Etymology of ink