An Etymological Dictionary of the German Language, S (1891)
by Friedrich Kluge, translated by John Francis Davis
suchen
Friedrich Kluge2510294An Etymological Dictionary of the German Language, S — suchen1891John Francis Davis

suchen, vb., ‘to seek, search,’ from the equiv. MidHG. suochen (süechen), OHG. suohhan (suohhen); a common Teut. verb, properly strong. Comp. Goth. sôkjan, AS. sêcan, E. to seek (and to beseech), Du. zoeken, OSax. sôkian, ‘to seek.’ The strong verbal root sôk, from Aryan sâg, has primit. cognates in Gr. ἡγέομας ‘to lead,’ and especially in Lat. sâgire, ‘to trace out,’ and OIr. sáigim, ‘to seek.’ To these are allied the cognates of Sache.