sake

Pronunciation: /ˈseɪ̯k/

The English word “sake” has 4 meanings listed here.

noun

Cause, interest or account.
Purpose or end; reason.
The benefit or regard of someone or something.
Contention, strife; guilt, sin, accusation or charge.

Etymology

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…

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