sake
EnglishEdit
Etymology 1Edit
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.
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
sake (plural sakes)
- cause, interest or account
- For the sake of argument
- purpose or end; reason
- For old times' sake
- the benefit or regard of someone or something
- 1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter I, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., OCLC 222716698:
- When I gave a dinner there was generally a cover laid for him. I liked the man for his own sake, and even had he promised to turn out a celebrity it would have had no weight with me.
- 2005, Plato, Sophist. Translation by Lesley Brown. 242a-b.
- But it will be for your sake that we'll undertake to refute this thesis, […]
- (obsolete except in phrases) contention, strife; guilt, sin, accusation or charge
- Genesis, 3:17
- And unto Adam He said, Because thou hast hearkened unto the voice of thy wife, and hast eaten of the tree, of which I commanded thee, saying, Thou shalt not eat of it: cursed is the ground for thy sake; in sorrow shalt thou eat of it all the days of thy life.
- Genesis, 3:17
Usage notesEdit
- The word sake is generally used in constructions of the form "for X's sake" or "for the sake of X", where X is a noun (see the quotations above, for sake of, and for the sake of).
- Garner's Modern American Usage notes it is common to write an apostrophe rather than apostrophe–ess in this construction when the noun ends in an /s/ or /z/ sound: for appearance' sake, for goodness' sake.
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Etymology 2Edit
NounEdit
sake (countable and uncountable, plural sakes)
- Alternative spelling of saké
AnagramsEdit
DutchEdit
Alternative formsEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Japanese 酒 (sake, “alcoholic drink”).
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
sake m (uncountable)
FinnishEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Japanese 酒 (sake, “alcoholic drink”).
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
sake
- sake (Japanese rice wine)
DeclensionEdit
| Inflection of sake (Kotus type 8/nalle, no gradation) | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| nominative | sake | saket | |
| genitive | saken | sakejen | |
| partitive | sakea | sakeja | |
| illative | sakeen | sakeihin | |
| singular | plural | ||
| nominative | sake | saket | |
| accusative | nom. | sake | saket |
| gen. | saken | ||
| genitive | saken | sakejen sakeinrare | |
| partitive | sakea | sakeja | |
| inessive | sakessa | sakeissa | |
| elative | sakesta | sakeista | |
| illative | sakeen | sakeihin | |
| adessive | sakella | sakeilla | |
| ablative | sakelta | sakeilta | |
| allative | sakelle | sakeille | |
| essive | sakena | sakeina | |
| translative | sakeksi | sakeiksi | |
| instructive | — | sakein | |
| abessive | saketta | sakeitta | |
| comitative | — | sakeineen | |
| Possessive forms of sake (type nalle) | ||
|---|---|---|
| possessor | singular | plural |
| 1st person | sakeni | sakemme |
| 2nd person | sakesi | sakenne |
| 3rd person | sakensa | |
AnagramsEdit
HausaEdit
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
sàkē m (possessed form sàken)
IndonesianEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Japanese 酒 (sake, “alcoholic drink”).
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
sake (plural sake-sake, first-person possessive sakeku, second-person possessive sakemu, third-person possessive sakenya)
- sake (Japanese rice wine)
Alternative formsEdit
- saki (nonstandard)
Further readingEdit
- “sake” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Language Development and Fostering Agency — Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic Indonesia, 2016.
JapaneseEdit
RomanizationEdit
sake
KapampanganEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *sakay.
VerbEdit
sake
Middle DutchEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Old Dutch *saka, from Proto-West Germanic *saku.
NounEdit
sāke f
InflectionEdit
This noun needs an inflection-table template.
DescendantsEdit
Further readingEdit
- “sake”, in Vroegmiddelnederlands Woordenboek, 2000
- Verwijs, E.; Verdam, J. (1885–1929), “sake”, in Middelnederlandsch Woordenboek, The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, →ISBN
MooreEdit
EtymologyEdit
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VerbEdit
sake
- to take out
- to accept, agree, approve of, tolerate, permit, obey
- to answer to a call
- to succeed, do well
PaliEdit
Alternative formsEdit
AdjectiveEdit
sake
PolishEdit
EtymologyEdit
Borrowed from Japanese 酒 (sake, “alcoholic drink”).
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
sake n (indeclinable)
- sake (Japanese rice wine)
Further readingEdit
PortugueseEdit
Alternative formsEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Japanese 酒 (sake, “alcoholic drink”).
NounEdit
sake m (plural sakes)
- sake (Japanese rice wine)
QuotationsEdit
For quotations using this term, see Citations:saquê.
RomanianEdit
EtymologyEdit
NounEdit
sake n (uncountable)
DeclensionEdit
SpanishEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Japanese 酒 (sake, “alcoholic drink”).
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
sake m (plural sakes)
- sake (Japanese rice wine)
Further readingEdit
- “sake”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014