ground, land (usually as someone's property) · bottom (of a container or a body of water) · reason; motive, cause
çekim: çoğul Gründe · tamlayan Grundes
eş: Ursache, Grundstück, Boden
köken: From Middle High German grunt, from Old High German grunt, from Proto-West Germanic *grundu, from Proto-Germanic *grunduz, from Proto-Indo-European *gʰr̥mtu-. Cognate with West Frisian grûn, Dutch grond, English ground. Non-Germanic cognates include Albanian grundë (“brittle earth”) and gryej (“to erode, crumble”).
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
köken: From Arabic سَبَب (sabab, “cause; reason”). Cognate with Azerbaijani səbəb, Bashkir сәбәп (səbəp), Crimean Tatar sebep, Georgian საბაბი (sababi), Indonesian sebab, Kyrgyz себеп (sebep), Tajik сабаб (sabab), Tatar сәбәп (säbäp), Turkish sebep, Turkmen sebäp, Uyghur سەۋەب (seweb), Urdu سبب (sabab), Uzbek sabab, etc.
köken: From Arabic سَبَب (sabab, “cause; reason”). Cognate with Azerbaijani səbəb, Bashkir сәбәп (səbəp), Crimean Tatar sebep, Georgian საბაბი (sababi), Indonesian sebab, Kazakh себеп (sebep), Tajik сабаб (sabab), Tatar сәбәп (säbäp), Turkish sebep, Turkmen sebäp, Uyghur سەۋەب (seweb), Urdu سبب (sabab), Uzbek sabab, etc.
By surface analysis, alas (“base”) + an, from Malay alasan, from Classical Malay السن (alasan), from Javanese ꦲꦭꦱꦤ꧀ (alasan, “reason, excuse”), from Old Javanese aleśyan (“on the pretext of”), leśya, liśya (“excuse, pretext”), from Prakrit *lissa, *līsa, *lēssa (“defective”), from Sanskrit लेश (leśa, “figure of speech”), लिश् (liś, “move, go”).