nake

From Middle English naken (“to nake”), from Old English nacian (“to bare, strip, make naked”), from Proto-Germanic *nakwōną (“to make naked”), from Proto-Indo-European *nogʷ- (“to make naked”). Cognate with Old Norse nǫkkva (“to bare, expose”). More at naked.

• IPA^(key): /neɪk/

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• Rhymes: -eɪk

nake (third-person singular simple present nakes, present participle naking, simple past and past participle naked)

1. (now chiefly Scotland) To make naked; to bare.
   • c. 1380s [c. 524], Chaucer, Geoffrey, transl., Boethius de Consolatione Philosophiae, book 4, metre 7, translation of The Consolation of Philosophy by Boethius, line 70; republished in The Complete Works Of Geoffrey Chaucer, London: Oxford University Press, 1912, page 192:

     O nyce men, why nake ye youre bakkes?

   • 1606, Middleton, Thomas, The Revenger's Tragedy, act 4, scene 4:

     Come, be ready, nake your swords.

• expose, reveal; see also Thesaurus:reveal

• Kane, Kean, aken, enka, kaen, kena

• IPA^(key): /naːkɪ/

nake (plural nakvke)

1. thing
2. what? (interrogative pronoun)
3. ...that which... (relative pronoun)

nake

1. (archaic) singular present subjunctive of naken

• Aken, aken, kane

A back-formation from naked.

• naken

• IPA^(key): /ˈnaːk(ə)/

nake

1. (rare) naked, exposed, miserly

• Yola: naaghen

• “nāke, adj.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-09-21.

nake

1. Alternative form of nekke

nake

1. Alternative form of naken

• nakent

nake

1. neuter singular of naken