sake

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   The benefit, good, or advantage of someone or something.

   They stayed together for the sake of their children.

2. 2
   noun

   The purpose or reason for doing something.

   For the sake of argument, let's say you're right.

3. 3
   noun

   A Japanese alcoholic drink made from fermented rice.

   They served warm sake with the meal.

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…

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