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.
   • 1606, Thomas Middleton, 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): /naˈke/ [nʌˈkɛ]
• Hyphenation: na‧ke

naké (passive nakiimé)

1. (transitive) to drink (milk)

• E. M. Parker, R. J. Hayward (1985) “nake”, in An Afar-English-French dictionary (with Grammatical Notes in English), University of London, →ISBN

• (Oklahoma) IPA^(key): [nɑ̂ˑɡi]
• Hyphenation: na‧ke

nake

1. what?
2. something

nake

1. thing

• J. B. Martin, M. McKane Mauldrin (2004) A dictionary of Creek/Muscogee, University of Nebraska Press, →ISBN, page 78
• J. B. Martin (2011) A grammar of Creek (Muscogee), University of Nebraska Press, →ISBN, page 143

nake

1. (dated or formal) 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 21 September 2018.

nake

1. alternative form of nekke

nake

1. alternative form of naken

• nakent

nake

1. neuter singular of naken