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 Proto-Turkic *ōy- (“to pick, peck”). Cognate with Old Turkic verb oj- ("to chisel"; "to make a deepening"). The nominal and verbal meanings o:j ~ o:j- are correlative with each other within known limits. The central meanings of o:j include: * 1) hollow, depression, pothole, ravine * 2) valley, immutability The central meanings of the verb o:j- are somewhat richer than the nominal meanings…
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”).
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.
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.