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.
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.
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.
Etimoloji
From Low German shel, schele, ultimately related to Proto-Germanic *skiljaną (“to divide, split”).