Source etymology 1
Original entry ↗noun
Selected source glosses provide context, not a complete modern definition inventoryCause, interest or account. · Purpose or end; reason. · The benefit or regard of someone or something. · Contention, strife; guilt, sin, accusation or charge.
From Middle English sake (“sake, cause”), from Old English sacu (“cause, lawsuit, legal action, complaint, issue, dispute”), from Proto-West Germanic *saku, from Proto-Germanic *sakō (“affair, thing, charge, accusation, matter”), from Proto-Indo-European *seh₂g- (“to investigate”). Akin to West Frisian saak (“cause; business”), Low German Saak, Dutch zaak (“matter; cause; business”), German Sache (“thing; matter; cause; legal cause”), Danish sag, Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian Nynorsk, and Swedish sak, Gothic 𐍃𐌰𐌺𐌾𐍉 (sakjō, “dispute, argument”), Old English sōcn (“inquiry, prosecution”), Old English sēcan (“to seek”). More at soke, soken, seek.
Relationships mentioned by the source
These are extracted mentions, not a timeline or a verified sequence of immediate parents.
- Root classification mention*seh₂g-ine-pro
- Inherited-form mentionsakeenm · sake, cause
- Inherited-form mentionsacuang · cause, lawsuit, legal action, complaint, issue, dispute
- Inherited-form mention*sakugmw-pro
- Inherited-form mention*sakōgem-pro · affair, thing, charge, accusation, matter
- Derivation mention*seh₂g-ine-pro · to investigate
- Cognate mentionsaakfy · cause; business
- Cognate mentionSaaknds
- Cognate mentionzaaknl · matter; cause; business
- Cognate mentionSachede · thing; matter; cause; legal cause
- Cognate mentionsagda
- Cognate mention𐍃𐌰𐌺𐌾𐍉got · dispute, argument
- Cognate mentionsōcnang
- Cognate mentionsēcanang · to seek
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Raw extraction fields are retained for auditing. Their order does not establish ancestry.
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