Etymograph

English

sabe

Sabe comes from Spanish saber ‘to know, to understand (a fact)’, from Proto-Italic *sapjō ‘to taste’, and ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *seh₁p-.

  1. Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*seh₁p-reconstructed
  2. Proto-Italicc. 1500–700 BCE*sapjō‘to taste’reconstructed
  3. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEsapiōas sapiō‘taste, know’
  4. Spanishc. 1500–presentsaberas sabe‘to know, to understand (a fact)’
  5. Englishearliest quotation 1917sabe

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed

Lineage

  1. Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*seh₁p-reconstructed
  2. Proto-Italicc. 1500–700 BCE*sapjō‘to taste’reconstructed
  3. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEsapiōas sapiō‘taste, know’
  4. Spanishc. 1500–presentsaberas sabe‘to know, to understand (a fact)’
  5. Englishearliest quotation 1917sabe

Earliest quotation: 1917, Charles Alden Seltzer, The Vengeance of Jefferson Gawne: “He sabes that my writin' ain't in no ways…”

Linked words

through Latin sapiō ‘taste, know’

sage, savvy, sapiens, savory, insipid, savour, savant, sapient, 13 more

Today it means

verb To understand.

Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.

Etymograph / Proto-Indo-European *seh₁p- / sabe

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