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
excuse (explanation designed to avoid or alleviate guilt or negative judgment) · justification, reason, rationale (explanation which provides support for behavior or for a belief or occurrence)
çekim: çoğul δικαιολογίες · tamlayan δικαιολογίας
köken: From Ancient Greek δικαιολογία (dikaiología), from the verb δικαιολογῶ (dikaiologô, “to justify”), from δίκαιος (díkaios, “fair”) + λόγος (lógos, “reason, cause”).
aile: δικαιολογητικός, δικαιολογήσιμος
Η δικαιολογία του ήταν ότι το λεωφορείο του καθυστέρησε.
Αντί να μου πει ότι δεν ήθελε ν’ αρθεί, μου ’πε ότι κάτι έχει να κάνει· δικαιολογίες, τώρα...
Όταν άκουσε ο δικαστής την δικαιολογία του, τον άφησε ελεύθερο.
motive (anything that prompts a choice of action) · motive (a reason for criminal behaviour) · recital (a numbered division unit of reasoning written in front of a statute)
köken: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *m(y)ewh₁-der. Proto-Italic *moweō Latin moveō Latin mōtus Proto-Indo-European *-wós Proto-Indo-European *-iHwósder. Latin -īvus Latin motivuslbor. Polish motyw Learned borrowing from Latin motivus.
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 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”).