sate

Etymology

An alteration, influenced by words such as satiate and satisfy, of the earlier form sade (“to weary, satiate, satisfy”), which came from Middle English saden (“to weary, satisfy, become wearied or satiated”), from Old English sadian (“to satisfy, satiate, fill, be sated, become wearied”), from Proto-West Germanic *sadōn (“to satiate, become satisfied”), from Proto-Germanic *sadaz (“sated”), from Proto-Indo-European *seh₂- (“to satiate, be satisfied”). It is cognate with Middle Low German saden, Middle High German saten (“to saturate, satisfy, satiate”), and Icelandic seðja (“to satisfy”), and is a doublet of sad.