Sake
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- cause, interest or account
- purpose or end; reason
- the benefit or regard of someone or something
- contention, strife; guilt, sin, accusation or charge
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Etymology
From Middle English sake (“sake, cause”), from Old English sacu (“cause, lawsuit, legal action, complaint, issue, dispute”), from Proto-Germanic *sakō (“affair, thing, charge, accusation, matter”), from Proto-Indo-European *sag- (“to investigate”). Akin to West Frisian saak, Low German sake, Dutch zaak "cause, thing", German Sache "thing, legal cause", Danish sag, Swedish sak, Gothic 𐍃𐌰𐌺𐌾𐍉 (sakjo, “dispute, argument”), Old English sōcn (“inquiry, prosecution”), Old English sēcan (“to seek”). More at soke, soken, seek.
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See also
- Art for art's sake
- And there are eunuchs who castrated themselves for the sake of the kingdom of heaven
- (For God's Sake) Give More Power to the People
- Love For the Sake of Love
- Knowledge for knowledge's sake
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