Latin sagus "prophetic"
Old Irish saigid "to claim," Middle Welsh haeðu "to strive"
Gothic sakan "to reprimand," Old High German sahhan "to argue," Old Saxon sakan "to rebuke"
Ancient Greek ἡγέομαι (hegéomai) "to direct"
"On the basis of the original use of sacar as a legal term meaning 'to obtain judicially; to exempt,' Corominas had linked this verb to the documented Gothic legal term SAKAN 'to dispute, rebuke, reprimand', rejecting the long-accepted connection with the family of [Latin] SACCUS." ~ S. Dworkin, A History of the Spanish Language (2012) (citations omitted) |