sake

Значение (Английский)

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

Произносится как (IPA)

/ˈseɪk/

Этимология (Английский)

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.

Предложения

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

По словам Виктора Василььева, Арнольд сравнительно мало работал над топологией ради топологии.