sake

Meaning

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

Synonyms

for

in order to

owing

alcohol

saki

account

benefit

cause

saké

purpose

interest

reason

aim

objective

object

advantage

intension

purport

rice beer

intent

mark

mind

motive

occasion

on account of

point

purview

regard

scope

sentinel

sentry

service

significance

tenor

view

wine

🍷

drinking place

Japanese rice wine

design

love

❤️

Japanese sake

animus

because

behalf

bring about

call

causation

comeliness

concerning

cuteness

Translations

saké

Sake

🍶

sake

🍶

saquê

sake

🍶

saké

αιτία

gracia

sake

sakè

σάκε

χάρη

ساكي

gratia

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ˈseɪk/

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English: sake

Inherited from Old English: sacu

Cognate with Western Frisian: saak

Cognate with Low German: Saak

Cognate with Dutch: zaak

Cognate with German: Sache

Cognate with Danish: sag

Cognate with Swedish: -

Cognate with Norwegian: sak

Cognate with Gothic: 𐍃𐌰𐌺𐌾𐍉

Cognate with Old English: sōcn

Cognate with Old English: sēcan

In summary

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.

Sentences

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