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

Conjugation of naken (weak)
infinitive	naken
past singular	naakte
past participle	genaakt
infinitive	naken
gerund	naken n
	present tense	past tense
1st person singular	naak	naakte
2nd person sing. (jij)	naakt, naak2	naakte
2nd person sing. (u)	naakt	naakte
2nd person sing. (gij)	naakt	naakte
3rd person singular	naakt	naakte
plural	naken	naakten
subjunctive sing.1	nake	naakte
subjunctive plur.1	naken	naakten
imperative sing.	naak
imperative plur.1	naakt
participles	nakend	genaakt
1) Archaic. 2) In case of inversion.

• 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