The story
- Old English · inherited fromætsacan“to deny, disown, abjure, renounce”
- Middle English · inherited fromatsaken
- English todayatsake
From Middle English atsaken, ætsaken, from Old English ætsacan (“to deny, disown, abjure, renounce”), equivalent to at- + sake.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.