naken

• nakyn (Scotland)

From Middle English nakenen, nacnen, equivalent to nake +‎ -en.

• Rhymes: -eɪkən

naken (third-person singular simple present nakens, present participle nakening, simple past and past participle nakened)

1. (transitive, UK, dialectal) To make naked; nake.

• Kenan, Kenna

From Middle Dutch nâken, from Old Dutch nāken, from Proto-Germanic *nēkijaną.

• IPA^(key): /ˈnaːkə(n)/

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naken

1. (intransitive) to draw near, to approach, to be imminent

   het nakende onweer ― the approaching thunderstorm

• genaken

• kanen

From Old Dutch nāken, from Proto-Germanic *nēkijaną.

nâken

1. to approach, to near

This verb needs an inflection-table template.

• Dutch: naken

• “naken”, in Vroegmiddelnederlands Woordenboek, 2000
• Verwijs, E., Verdam, J. (1885–1929) “naken”, in Middelnederlandsch Woordenboek, The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, →ISBN

• nake, nakyn, nakkin, nakyne

Inherited from Old English nacian, from Proto-Germanic *nakwōną.

• IPA^(key): /ˈnaːkən/, /ˈnakən/

naken

1. To remove clothes or make naked; to nake.
   • c. 1380s [c. 524], Geoffrey, transl. Chaucer, 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?

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

2. To remove; to expose or make visible.

• nakenen

• English: nake
• Scots: nake

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

From Old Norse nakinn, nǫkkviðr (“naked”), from Proto-Germanic *nakwadaz, from Proto-Indo-European *nogʷós (“naked, bare”).

naken (neuter singular nakent, definite singular and plural nakne, comparative naknere, indefinite superlative naknest, definite superlative nakneste)

1. nude, naked, bare

• nakenhet
• nakenstrand

• “naken” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

From Old Norse nakinn, nǫkkviðr (“naked”), from Proto-Germanic *nakwadaz, from Proto-Indo-European *nogʷós (“naked, bare”).

• IPA^(key): /²naːçən/, [²nɐ̞ːçən], [²nɐ̞ːc͡çən]
• (newer or regional) IPA^(key): /²naːkən/, [²nɐ̞ːkən]
• Rhymes: -çən
• Hyphenation: na‧ken

naken (comparative naknare, superlative naknast)

1. naked, nude, bare

• nakenstrand

• “naken” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

From Proto-Germanic *nēkijaną.

nāken

1. to approach, to near, to come closer

• Middle Dutch: nâken
  • Dutch: naken

• “nāken”, in Oudnederlands Woordenboek, 2012

From Old Norse nakinn, nǫkkviðr (“naked”), from Proto-Germanic *nakwadaz, from Proto-Indo-European *nogʷós (“naked, bare”).

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naken (comparative naknare, superlative naknast)

1. naked

   Har man inga kläder på sig så är man naken

   If you have no clothes on, you are naked

   nakenråtta

   naked mole rat [naked-rat]

   Den nakna sanningen

   The naked truth

   1. nude

• halvnaken
• nakenbad
• nakenbada
• nakenchock
• nakendans
• nakenhet
• nakenhund
• nakeninspelning
• nakenkultur
• nakenscen
• nakenstaty
• nakenstrand

• naken in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• naken in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)
• Fula Ordboken

• nakne