'Seek' is PIE *seh-g- (to track down) — shared with Latin 'sagax.' Searching modeled on hunting.
To attempt to find or obtain something; to search for; to try to reach or achieve.
From Old English 'sēcan' meaning 'to seek, search for, pursue, try to find,' from Proto-Germanic *sōkijaną (to seek), from PIE root *seh₂g- (to seek out, track down). The same root produced Latin 'sāgīre' (to perceive keenly, to track by scent) and 'sāgāx' (keen-scented, sagacious). The original concept was not abstract searching but physical tracking — following
The words 'seek' and 'sagacious' are etymological cousins — both derive from PIE *seh₂g- (to track down). Latin 'sāgāx' meant 'keen-scented,' describing a dog that could track prey by smell. The intellectual meaning of 'sagacious' (having keen judgment) is a metaphor built on the hunting