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.

• Rhymes: -eɪk

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

1. (chiefly Scotland) To make naked; to bare.
   • Chaucer

     Come, be ready, nake your swords.

• Kane, Kean, aken, enka, kaen

nake

1. (archaic) singular present subjunctive of naken

• Aken, aken, kane

A back-formation from naked.

• IPA^(key): /ˈnaːk(ə)/

nake (rare)

1. naked, exposed, miserly

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

From Old English nacian.

nake

1. Alternative form of naken

• nakent

nake

1. neuter singular of naken