sake

Senso

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

Pronunciato come (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.

Frasi

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

Secondo Victor Vassiliev, Arnold ha lavorato relativamente poco sulla topologia per il bene della topologia.