sake

Significat

1. cause, interest or account
2. purpose or end; reason
3. the benefit or regard of someone or something
4. contention, strife; guilt, sin, accusation or charge

Pronunciat com a (IPA)

/ˈseɪk/

Etimologia

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, Swedish and Norwegian sak, Gothic 𐍃𐌰𐌺𐌾𐍉 (sakjō, “dispute, argument”), Old English sōcn (“inquiry, prosecution”), Old English sēcan (“to seek”). More at soke, soken, seek.

Sents

According to Victor Vassiliev, Arnold worked comparatively little on topology for topology's sake .