sake
English
[edit]Etymology 1
[edit]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.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]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:
- 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
- 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, 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.
Usage notes
[edit]- 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.
Derived terms
[edit]- art for art's sake
- for any sake
- for Christ's sake
- for cripes' sake
- for cripes sake
- for fuck's sake
- for fudge's sake
- for Goddess's sake
- for God's sake
- for goodness' sake
- for gosh sake
- for heaven's sake
- for land's sake
- for land's sake alive
- for mercy's sake
- for name's sake
- for old sake's sake
- for old times' sake
- for old time's sake
- for Pete's sake
- for pity's sake
- forsake
- for sake of
- for shame's sake
- for the land's sake
- for the land's sake alive
- for the sake of
- for the sake of it
- for very shame's sake
- keepsake
- land sake
- land sake alive
- land sakes
- land's sake
- land's sake alive
- namesake
- name-sake
- sackless
- sake and soke
- withsake
Translations
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Etymology 2
[edit]Noun
[edit]sake (countable and uncountable, plural sakes)
- Alternative spelling of saké
Anagrams
[edit]Dutch
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Japanese 酒 (sake, “alcoholic drink”).
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]sake m (uncountable)
Finnish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Japanese 酒 (sake, “alcoholic drink”).
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]sake
- sake (Japanese rice wine)
Declension
[edit]Inflection of sake (Kotus type 8/nalle, no gradation) | |||
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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 sakein rare | |
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 | |
abessive | saketta | sakeitta | |
instructive | — | sakein | |
comitative | See the possessive forms below. |
Further reading
[edit]- “sake”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish][1] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2023-07-03
Anagrams
[edit]Hausa
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]sàkē m (possessed form sàken)
Indonesian
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Japanese 酒 (sake, “alcoholic drink”).
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]sake (plural sake-sake, first-person possessive sakeku, second-person possessive sakemu, third-person possessive sakenya)
- sake (Japanese rice wine)
Alternative forms
[edit]- saki (nonstandard)
Further reading
[edit]- “sake” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.
Japanese
[edit]Romanization
[edit]sake
Kapampangan
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *sakay.
Verb
[edit]sake
Middle Dutch
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Old Dutch *saka, from Proto-West Germanic *saku.
Noun
[edit]sāke f
Inflection
[edit]This noun needs an inflection-table template.
Descendants
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “sake”, in Vroegmiddelnederlands Woordenboek, 2000
- Verwijs, E., Verdam, J. (1885–1929) “sake”, in Middelnederlandsch Woordenboek, The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, →ISBN
Moore
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Verb
[edit]sake
- to take out
- to accept, agree, approve of, tolerate, permit, obey
- to answer to a call
- to succeed, do well
Norwegian Nynorsk
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Japanese 酒 (sake, “alcoholic drink”).
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]sake m (definite singular saken, indefinite plural sakar, definite plural sakane)
References
[edit]- “sake” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
Pali
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Adjective
[edit]sake
- inflection of saka (“one's own”):
Polish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Japanese 酒 (sake, “alcoholic drink”).
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]sake n (indeclinable)
- sake (Japanese rice wine)
Further reading
[edit]- sake in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
- sake in Polish dictionaries at PWN
Portuguese
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Unadapted borrowing from Japanese 酒 (sake, “alcoholic drink”).
Pronunciation
[edit]
Noun
[edit]sake m (plural sakes)
- sake (Japanese rice wine)
Quotations
[edit]For quotations using this term, see Citations:saquê.
Romanian
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Noun
[edit]sake n (uncountable)
Declension
[edit]Spanish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Japanese 酒 (sake, “alcoholic drink”).
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]sake m (plural sakes)
- sake (Japanese rice wine)
Further reading
[edit]- “sake”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
Swedish
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Alternative forms
[edit]Noun
[edit]sake c
- saké (rice wine)
Declension
[edit]Declension of sake | ||||
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Uncountable | ||||
Indefinite | Definite | |||
Nominative | sake | saken | — | — |
Genitive | sakes | sakens | — | — |
References
[edit]- English terms derived from Proto-Indo-European
- English terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *seh₂g-
- English terms inherited from Middle English
- English terms derived from Middle English
- English terms inherited from Old English
- English terms derived from Old English
- English terms inherited from Proto-West Germanic
- English terms derived from Proto-West Germanic
- English terms inherited from Proto-Germanic
- English terms derived from Proto-Germanic
- English 1-syllable words
- English terms with IPA pronunciation
- English terms with audio links
- Rhymes:English/eɪk
- Rhymes:English/eɪk/1 syllable
- English lemmas
- English nouns
- English countable nouns
- English terms with usage examples
- English terms with quotations
- English uncountable nouns
- English heteronyms
- en:Wines
- Dutch terms borrowed from Japanese
- Dutch terms derived from Japanese
- Dutch terms with IPA pronunciation
- Dutch terms with audio links
- Dutch lemmas
- Dutch nouns
- Dutch uncountable nouns
- Dutch masculine nouns
- Finnish terms borrowed from Japanese
- Finnish terms derived from Japanese
- Finnish 2-syllable words
- Finnish terms with IPA pronunciation
- Rhymes:Finnish/ɑke
- Rhymes:Finnish/ɑke/2 syllables
- Finnish lemmas
- Finnish nouns
- Finnish nalle-type nominals
- Hausa terms with IPA pronunciation
- Hausa lemmas
- Hausa nouns
- Hausa masculine nouns
- Indonesian terms borrowed from Japanese
- Indonesian terms derived from Japanese
- Indonesian 2-syllable words
- Indonesian terms with IPA pronunciation
- Indonesian lemmas
- Indonesian nouns
- Japanese non-lemma forms
- Japanese romanizations
- Kapampangan terms inherited from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian
- Kapampangan terms derived from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian
- Kapampangan lemmas
- Kapampangan verbs
- Middle Dutch terms derived from Proto-Germanic
- Middle Dutch terms inherited from Proto-Germanic
- Middle Dutch terms inherited from Old Dutch
- Middle Dutch terms derived from Old Dutch
- Middle Dutch terms inherited from Proto-West Germanic
- Middle Dutch terms derived from Proto-West Germanic
- Middle Dutch lemmas
- Middle Dutch nouns
- Middle Dutch feminine nouns
- Moore terms with IPA pronunciation
- Moore lemmas
- Moore verbs
- Norwegian Nynorsk terms borrowed from Japanese
- Norwegian Nynorsk terms derived from Japanese
- Norwegian Nynorsk terms with IPA pronunciation
- Norwegian Nynorsk lemmas
- Norwegian Nynorsk nouns
- Norwegian Nynorsk masculine nouns
- nn:Alcoholic beverages
- Pali non-lemma forms
- Pali adjective forms
- Polish terms borrowed from Japanese
- Polish terms derived from Japanese
- Polish 2-syllable words
- Polish terms with IPA pronunciation
- Polish terms with audio links
- Rhymes:Polish/akɛ
- Rhymes:Polish/akɛ/2 syllables
- Polish lemmas
- Polish nouns
- Polish indeclinable nouns
- Polish neuter nouns
- Portuguese terms borrowed from Japanese
- Portuguese unadapted borrowings from Japanese
- Portuguese terms derived from Japanese
- Portuguese 2-syllable words
- Portuguese terms with IPA pronunciation
- Portuguese lemmas
- Portuguese nouns
- Portuguese countable nouns
- Portuguese terms spelled with K
- Portuguese masculine nouns
- pt:Alcoholic beverages
- Romanian terms borrowed from French
- Romanian terms derived from French
- Romanian lemmas
- Romanian nouns
- Romanian uncountable nouns
- Romanian terms spelled with K
- Romanian neuter nouns
- Spanish terms borrowed from Japanese
- Spanish terms derived from Japanese
- Spanish 2-syllable words
- Spanish terms with IPA pronunciation
- Rhymes:Spanish/ake
- Rhymes:Spanish/ake/2 syllables
- Spanish terms with homophones
- Spanish lemmas
- Spanish nouns
- Spanish countable nouns
- Spanish terms spelled with K
- Spanish masculine nouns
- es:Alcoholic beverages
- Swedish lemmas
- Swedish nouns
- Swedish common-gender nouns