köken: Inherited from Old French cause, borrowed from Classical Latin causa. Compare chose, an inherited doublet.
aile: à cause de, à cause que, causal, causalité, cause perdue, en cause, en connaissance de cause, en désespoir de cause, en tout état de cause, et pour cause
broadly, any abstract thing, affair, matter, or fact · act of (word used for the nominalization of verbs, adjectives, or phrases) · experience, having been or done (used with ある (aru, “have, possess”))
köken: From Old Japanese, from Proto-Japonic *kətə. Cognate with 言 (koto, “word”).
topic, subject, theme · reason, cause, grounds, justification · motif (recurring or dominant element in a work of art)
çekim: çoğul aiheet · tamlayan aiheen
köken: Probably via metathesis from ajaa (“to drive, pursue”) + -e (*ajeh), "that which spurs or drives on" > "reason". May also be inspired by aie. Another theory proposes a borrowing from an earlier (Pre-Germanic) form of Proto-Germanic *aiz (“copper, bronze”) (like *ajes- → *aješ > *ajeh), but the semantics and distribution make this questionable.
trouble, matter, problem · battle, combat, fight, duel · ill, trouble, condition, complaint (a certain abnormal state of health)
çekim: çoğul bajok
köken: Borrowed from Serbo-Croatian boj (“battle”).
aile: bajlódik, bajos, a baj nem jár egyedül, annyi baj legyen, bajba jut, kerül, keveredik, bajban ismerszik meg a jó barát, ellátja a baját, bajvívás
köken: From Old Latin caussa, from Proto-Italic *kaussā, further origin unknown. Connected by some to Latin cudo (“to strike”), in the sense "strike a cause," in which the Proto-Indo-European form would be *kewh₂-ud-ʰ-t-, from *kewh₂- (“to cut, strike”). Others are skeptical of an Indo-European origin. Related to Etruscan 𐌂𐌀𐌅𐌔𐌀 (cavsa).
aile: accūsō, causārius, causidicus, causor, causula, excūsō, incūsō, recūsō
qua de causa/qua de re/quam ob causam
Ille diēs prīmus lētī prīmusque malōrum causa fuit …. That day – a first of death, and onset of misery – it was the cause [of everything].
SĪMŌ: Nē haec quidem / satis vehemēns causa ad objūrgandum.
köken: From Middle Low German orsake (“reason, cause”), related to German Ursache. It is a compound of or- + sake / ur- + Sache, from Proto-Germanic *uz- (“out”) and *sakō (“case”). A similar derivation existed in medieval Scandinavian, but with a slightly different meaning, cf. Old Danish orsagh (“an excuse”) and Old Norse órsekr (“innocent”).