sake
要点ため
意味
- ため;利益;理由,目的
例文
She married him for the sake of his family name.
彼女は彼の家柄のために彼と結婚した。
They worked hard for the sake of their children.
彼らは子供たちのために懸命に働いた。
Please accept this as a keep-sake of my husband.
これは亡くなった夫の形見としてお受け取りください。
語源
英語の原文（Wiktionary）
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, Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian Nynorsk, and Swedish sak, Gothic 𐍃𐌰𐌺𐌾𐍉 (sakjō, “dispute, argument”), Old English sōcn (“inquiry, prosecution”), Old English sēcan (“to seek”). More at soke, soken, seek.